Busters bunte Bühne

Originaltitel: The Play House

1921
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23 Min.

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Buster Keaton in Busters bunte Bühne (1921)

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAfter waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.

Regie
- Edward F. Cline
- Buster Keaton
Drehbuch
- Buster Keaton
- Edward F. Cline
Hauptbesetzung

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,4/10

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IHRE BEWERTUNG

Regie
- Edward F. Cline
- Buster Keaton
Drehbuch
- Buster Keaton
- Edward F. Cline
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 1 Nominierung insgesamt

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Buster Keaton

Audience
(as 'Buster' Keaton)
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Edward F. Cline

Orangutan Trainer
(Nicht genannt)

Monte Collins

Civil War Veteran
(Nicht genannt)

Virginia Fox

Twin
(Nicht genannt)

Joe Martin

Orangutan
(Nicht genannt)

Joe Murphy

One of the Zouaves
(Nicht genannt)

Joe Roberts

Actor-Stage Manager
(Nicht genannt)

Jess Weldon

One of the Zouaves
(Nicht genannt)

Ford West

Stage Hand
(Nicht genannt)

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Wissenswertes
The multiple Busters on screen together were created in the camera, using a special lens with shutters to film only a portion of the scene at a time. Buster would perform one part, then the cameraman would crank the film back and open another shutter to film another part. A banjo player with a metronome helped Buster Keaton to perform precisely at the right time for each take.

Patzer
Sometimes the background is visible through the elbow of Male Audience Member Buster, revealing the double-exposure technique used to film two Buster Keatons sitting side by side.

Zitate
Man in Audience: This fellow Keaton seems to be the whole show.

Alternative Versionen
The 35mm print currently (2006) available for theatrical exhibition is slightly different from the DVD version:
- There is a British Board of Film Censors approval title and an extra title mentioning the Raymond Rohauer collection.
- The inter-titles are in a different font but contain the same text as the DVD version.
- The "Written and Directed by" title credits Buster Keaton solely.
- There is an out-of-sequence edit in the print. The scene where the Zouave guards walk out and Buster replaces them with street workers comes immediately after the sequence where Buster meets the twins. It begins right as the Zouave chief comes under the stage backdrop and confront Joe Roberts. The scene plays to the fadeout and then immediately cuts to the beginning of the monkey scene. At the end of the monkey scene, the backdrop confrontation begins and abruptly cuts right where it left off earlier in the film.

Verbindungen
Edited into The Golden Age of Buster Keaton (1979)

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6/10

Multiplicity

In The Play House there is an opening sequence with multiple Buster Keatons on stage, playing the performers, musicians and the audience. It is a dream sequence which also comes across as a tribute to Georges Méliès.

This short then settles down as Keaton plays a stage hand and a performer, well a performing monkey. Keaton also tries to woo his girl but she is a set of identical twins and he keeps picking on the wrong twin to kiss. He then gets constantly interrupted by the main performer who is also a beastly big man leading to hijinks and acrobatics.

This short is rather episodic and surreal. Keaton's stunt work is more safe here as he was recovering from an injury at the time.