Keystone Kops - Keystone Hotel

[TJOPootertoot]

That guy (Mayor?) with the giant key had one hell of a mustache.

[TheUneatenCookie]

I love their uniforms and their way of running :D

[TheScrambles1]

This is much better and funnier than the movies you see today.

[mushroomcloudy]

What kind of recorder card are you using, this quality is terrible. I was expecting at least HD.

[Paramore40944]

@mushroomcloudy a taoster

[rbrbran277]

Pies to the face and they nearly killed as innocent bystander. Yep, them were the days.

[zrichred]

If you look at time 2.30 the truck skids into the sidewalk, look at the rear wheel it is buckled but they still keep going. silent film at its best.

[HebrewsTwelve22]

Ha Ha these guys must have been to the same driver training school as the police in my town! lol

[thprfssnl1]

just heard a reference to this in the denmark cameroon game

[princedrew1331]

@thprfssnl1 haha thats why im here too

[shirls2]

Brilliant piece of film love Shirls xx

[CARLOS62B]

good clean fun,

thanks for sharing.

[pomeroy40144]

This is GREAT!

[DJMChicago]

I was a kid in the 60's, and I have the super 8 as well. This version is a little incomplete as it is missing a brief opening shot of the hotel's entrance. The ending might be cut as well. I will try to get my copy digitized. Keystone Hotel is actually a sound picture made in 1935 as an homage to the silent era. The only places you can find the sound version are Youtube and the MGM laser disc version of Public Enemy/Little Caesar. I have that laser disc, but I don't have a laser disc player.

[Phred22]

Didn't whoever posted this know silent films were never silent? They always had a musical background?

[grundgemonster]

so what do you suggest he does about it?

[dannandstacey4eva]

@Phred22 Umm, actually, this particular film never had a score. This version was cut for home-movie audiences, and only released on silent 8mm. It came with no audio track, or sheet music. So unless you had a creative family member to sit down and compose a score for this, this movie was in fact always silent and never had a showing with sound.

[TrapperMilan]

thank god our sense of humour has improved since these days!

[GoatandCatandRam]

It hasn't.

[mecorn56]

I never knew the three stooges had pie fight mentors!!!!!

[rwsmith29456]

Is that cross-eyed guy Ben Turpin? Thanks for posting, this is great!

[IanMathewson1]

First time I've seen this in 40 years. My dad has the 200ft version on 8mm bought back in 1963 and I still have this in my cellar and if I can get it digitalised I'll post it.

[pegbars]

Beautiful! I had this Ken Films 50-footer when I was a kid.

Great job on the transfer, and thanks for posting! It's probably been 35 years since I've seen this.

[joeocho88]

I LOVE SILENT FILMS.

[Michaelj2001]

Even finding and recording this is awesome five stars, even if it is short version

[fromthesidelines]

If this is what I think it is- this is the "Ken Films" 8mm reissue from the early '70s (they had the rights to release the United Artists pre-1949 Warner Bros. library for "home movie" audiences)- it was available in two lengths: 50 and 200 ft. versions...this is the "short" version.

[fromthesidelines]

This was an excerpt from a 1935 Warner Bros.-Vitaphone two-reel short that was SO good at recreating "silent movie comedy", some documentaries on Mack Sennett and silent films used excerpts from this, passing the footage off as originally from the 1910's and '20s itself!

[8mmProjector]

This is the entire reel that I have.