Wow it's almost bizarr witnessing Buster Keaton talking, just chillin' with some youngsters and sounding like - and seeming like - an ordinary elderly man. After growing up with his amazing, brilliant silent pictures I'm left with the feeling that he was almost godlike, so out of this world, the greatest physical comedian and inventor of visual gags that ever lived. He was so great that at his best he made even Chaplin seem second-rate.
not only is is wonderful to watch buster tell this story but to hear him do it with such love and the laughter in the background of everyone listening. just shows how that type of comedy is timeless. what a great little video thanks for sharing
I LOVE Buster Keaton! I love Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin too.These must have been great times when they were all making movies and didn't need to be vulgar to be funny.
He's one of the three or four people of which I am always thinking we share a special part of heart and soul together. you know, people without knowing eachother but understanding from a very deep inside. I've showed all of his movies (all of the available movies) in my cinema during the 90s and always I was sad of "not walking on the same planet" cause he's died a few months before my birth...
Can you just imagine sitting at the table, listening to the likes of Buster Keaton? Gives me goose bumps to hear first hand stories of Stan and Ollie. A bit different humor than that of Mr. Keaton. So sad that we tend to appreciate the late comedians after they become "late." So many lived their later years in neglected and isolated ways, never realizing how much they are loved. It seems that once you have nothing more to offer, off you go. Sorry...a bit emotional, wish I had the chance.
@1more4theroad I know what you mean. I wish I'd been alive during his time and could've known him. I tell you if I had ever believed seances worked and that the dead could be contacted, he'd be my candidate for try making that long distance call to.
Buster didn't like to visit his peers too much, they made him sad.(They never even heard of the Beatles!) He loved television and did not live in the past- he was with it!
This is absolutely great - a simple candid sit-down-lemme-tell-you-a-story short film with a simple yet brilliant fellow like Buster Keaton, imagine him hobknobbing with this youthful, chic 60s crowd...WHAT a gem - priceless, don't EVER lose this clip.
(I love Buster's head - those quick subtle jerking movements he makes, when he turns his head this way and that way)
This is behind the scenes of his film short, The Railrodder, shot in Canada a few years before he died. He may have used this train to travel from location to location.
Wow it's almost bizarr witnessing Buster Keaton talking, just chillin' with some youngsters and sounding like - and seeming like - an ordinary elderly man. After growing up with his amazing, brilliant silent pictures I'm left with the feeling that he was almost godlike, so out of this world, the greatest physical comedian and inventor of visual gags that ever lived. He was so great that at his best he made even Chaplin seem second-rate.
phoenixsonrising 3 months ago
Mr.Keaton was a genious!
BrownWolf1969 3 months ago
It's so weird hearing him talking after watching so many silent films of his.....
Sweeneycansing 4 months ago
I love seeing this candid footage of Buster. He always seemed like the nicest, most down-to-earth guy.
MissGoldenDreams13 10 months ago 5
I get my best ideas in the bathroom too, they're just not as good as Keaton's
SadlifeProduction 1 year ago
not only is is wonderful to watch buster tell this story but to hear him do it with such love and the laughter in the background of everyone listening. just shows how that type of comedy is timeless. what a great little video thanks for sharing
tay66 2 years ago
Buster Keaton is amazing.
I LOVE all kinds of comedy from the g-rated to the most vulgar.I do not discriminate.
kblixt 3 years ago
Buster says "I have to go worsh up." I have never heard anyone but a Pittsburgh native say worsh!
mjbari3 3 years ago
@mjbari3 They apparently also say it in Michigan too, which is where Buster called home. My grandfather from Michigan says it too.
thewickedfae 1 year ago
You've never been to Salem, Ohio.
plrecords 1 year ago
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Poor duck.
Keaton's words are incomprehensible.
mishima1974 3 years ago
I LOVE Buster Keaton! I love Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin too.These must have been great times when they were all making movies and didn't need to be vulgar to be funny.
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4MaryAnna 3 years ago 5
buster keaton was an amazing man,
i admire his films.
i wish i was born around the time he lived.
:(
THEtinybrat24 3 years ago 5
He's one of the three or four people of which I am always thinking we share a special part of heart and soul together. you know, people without knowing eachother but understanding from a very deep inside. I've showed all of his movies (all of the available movies) in my cinema during the 90s and always I was sad of "not walking on the same planet" cause he's died a few months before my birth...
meikelkorleone 3 years ago 18
Can you just imagine sitting at the table, listening to the likes of Buster Keaton? Gives me goose bumps to hear first hand stories of Stan and Ollie. A bit different humor than that of Mr. Keaton. So sad that we tend to appreciate the late comedians after they become "late." So many lived their later years in neglected and isolated ways, never realizing how much they are loved. It seems that once you have nothing more to offer, off you go. Sorry...a bit emotional, wish I had the chance.
1more4theroad 3 years ago 21
@1more4theroad I know what you mean. I wish I'd been alive during his time and could've known him. I tell you if I had ever believed seances worked and that the dead could be contacted, he'd be my candidate for try making that long distance call to.
TheBookWorm1718 7 months ago
Buster didn't like to visit his peers too much, they made him sad.(They never even heard of the Beatles!) He loved television and did not live in the past- he was with it!
chaussee123 4 years ago
This is absolutely great - a simple candid sit-down-lemme-tell-you-a-story short film with a simple yet brilliant fellow like Buster Keaton, imagine him hobknobbing with this youthful, chic 60s crowd...WHAT a gem - priceless, don't EVER lose this clip.
(I love Buster's head - those quick subtle jerking movements he makes, when he turns his head this way and that way)
vrikey 4 years ago 6
Buster is defineatly talking about
"Leaving Em'Laughing" Stan and Babe
And Ed Kennedy.
143AC 4 years ago
is this filmed in his house?...did he ever lived in a train?.
ps:I'm not joking....I'm just ignorant in that subject matter.
APPLEexampleSample 4 years ago
This is behind the scenes of his film short, The Railrodder, shot in Canada a few years before he died. He may have used this train to travel from location to location.
daveholm 4 years ago
@daveholm I think this may have been filmed inside Keaton trailer on-location.
HunterMann 3 months ago
He looks so much like Hunter S Thompson in this. Even the way he smokes his cigarette..
drmoonrat 4 years ago
Film making genius, was such a nice man.
bgrant77 4 years ago 2
Which two-reeler is he talking about when the video starts?
bencheshire 4 years ago
I think he was talkin' about "Leave 'em laughing"...
anothernicemess 4 years ago
Great. Keaton is an immortal.
jeroid 5 years ago
Priceless stuff. I would have loved to speak to Buster about filmmaking.
Iguana56 5 years ago