DevereauxJennings — settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:DevereauxJennings @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:35:23 +0200 Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner + Buster Keaton, 1928) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/steamboat-bill-jr <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner + Buster Keaton, 1928)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 23/div div class="occasion" National Near Miss Day/div div class="img" Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)/div div class="caption" A production photo showing the moment the façade crashing down towards Keaton. The photographer is standing to the right of Keaton at a very safe distance. The thickness of the wall is clearly, frightfully, visible. Even with the open window moving towards him, this blink-and-you-miss-it shot cannot guarantee a happy ending for Keaton or his movie persona William Canfield Jr. DPs: Bert Haines & Devereaux Jennings./div div class="txt" In Steamboat Bill, Jr., former vaudevillian Keaton narrowly escapes the façade of a house crashing down around him.\ "I'm trying to teach you to run it - not wreck it!" ### – William 'Steamboat Bill' Canfield\ ##### Both the man and the stunt lived on, probably most famously in Keaton aficionado #JackieChan's Project A Part II (HK, 1987).   Despite all the well-meant tributes, none of the later stunts are as nail biting as the pre-OSHA original./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalNearMissDay #CharlesReisner #BusterKeaton #BertHaines #DevereauxJennings #SilentFilm #slapstick #vaudeville #stunts #comedy #USA #1920s/div /section ]]>

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner + Buster Keaton, 1928)

Mar

23

National Near Miss Day

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

A production photo showing the moment the façade crashing down towards Keaton. The photographer is standing to the right of Keaton at a very safe distance. The thickness of the wall is clearly, frightfully, visible. Even with the open window moving towards him, this blink-and-you-miss-it shot cannot guarantee a happy ending for Keaton or his movie persona William Canfield Jr. DPs: Bert Haines & Devereaux Jennings.

In Steamboat Bill, Jr., former vaudevillian Keaton narrowly escapes the façade of a house crashing down around him.

“I'm trying to teach you to run it – not wreck it!”

– William 'Steamboat Bill' Canfield

Both the man and the stunt lived on, probably most famously in Keaton aficionado #JackieChan's Project A Part II (HK, 1987).

Despite all the well-meant tributes, none of the later stunts are as nail biting as the pre-OSHA original.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalNearMissDay #CharlesReisner #BusterKeaton #BertHaines #DevereauxJennings #SilentFilm #slapstick #vaudeville #stunts #comedy #USA #1920s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/steamboat-bill-jr Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:42:40 +0100 The General (Clyde Bruckman + Buster Keaton, 1926) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-general-1926 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The General (Clyde Bruckman + Buster Keaton, 1926)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" National Oregon Day/div div class="img" The General (1926)/div div class="caption" Johnnie Gray (Keaton) stands on the roof of The General's locomotive while Oregon passes along. DPs: Bert Haines & Devereaux Jennings./div div class="txt" ##### For authenticity reasons, The General was – for the most part – filmed on location in Oregon. Set during the #AmericanCivilWar, it's a comedic retelling of a popular war memoir about the #GreatLocomotiveChase.\ "This girl was in the baggage car when we stole the train, so I thought it best to hold her." ### – Captain Anderson\ ##### Sadly it was a box office #flop, resulting in Keaton losing his independence and his movie entering the #PublicDomain as early as 1954. Luckily for us that means we too can enjoy Oregon beautiful 1920s vistas./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalOregonDay #ClydeBruckman #BusterKeaton #WilliamPittenger #MarionMack #BertHaines #DevereauxJennings #SilentFilm #war #trains #CivilWar #BookAdaptation #Oregon #USA #1920s/div /section ]]>

The General (Clyde Bruckman + Buster Keaton, 1926)

Mar

8

National Oregon Day

The General (1926)

Johnnie Gray (Keaton) stands on the roof of The General's locomotive while Oregon passes along. DPs: Bert Haines & Devereaux Jennings.

For authenticity reasons, The General was – for the most part – filmed on location in Oregon. Set during the #AmericanCivilWar, it's a comedic retelling of a popular war memoir about the #GreatLocomotiveChase.

“This girl was in the baggage car when we stole the train, so I thought it best to hold her.”

– Captain Anderson

Sadly it was a box office #flop, resulting in Keaton losing his independence and his movie entering the #PublicDomain as early as 1954. Luckily for us that means we too can enjoy Oregon beautiful 1920s vistas.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalOregonDay #ClydeBruckman #BusterKeaton #WilliamPittenger #MarionMack #BertHaines #DevereauxJennings #SilentFilm #war #trains #CivilWar #BookAdaptation #Oregon #USA #1920s

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