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When Buster Keaton’s classic comedy Seven Chances was released in 1925, it contained a brief three-minute sequence in early Technicolor.  In those days, Technicolor was still experimental and used only two of the three primary colors, red and green.  For technical reasons, it was impossible to complete the spectrum and add blue until 1934. in [...]
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Buster Keaton is a bachelor who stands to inherit a fortune if he finds himself a bride by seven o’clock in this 1925 silent feature, which Dave Kehr has described as “a cubist comedy … based on a principle of geometric progression”... Read Post

Buster Keaton is a bachelor who stands to inherit a fortune if he finds himself a bride by seven o’clock in this 1925 silent feature, which Dave Kehr has described as “a cubist comedy … based on a principle of geometric progression”... Read Post

WSJ's Jim Fusilli sits down with musicians Shara Worden, Dan Zanes and Kaki King, each of whom have composed a new score for a classic Buster Keaton film. Read Post