It is not safe here is brought to you by all the manufacturers of weapons and insensible old glamor. I will not follow back unless you make me clutch my proverbial pearls.
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Sherlock Jr’s “movie within a movie”: The scenery changes around Buster Keaton very quickly. He suddenly finds himself in a doorway to a garden, on a crowded city street to on top of a rock, etc. Keaton later recalled that his cameraman, Byron Houck, had used surveying instruments to position him and the camera at the exact correct distances and positions to give the illusion of continuity as the scenes changed. Long before CGI, Keaton created a vivid world with its own laws.
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I didn’t have time to draw a new picture for Buster’s 116th, so here is a request doodle of him from a while back. And here is a beautiful song from Curtis Eller. Happy birthday, gorgeous.
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1st buster is trying so hard, hoping no one saw him slip up. 2nd buster is letting 3rd buster know he messed up and that he should try to keep the right tempo. 3rd buster is like uh huh okay sure…
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