Montage

Earlier on I mentioned that I would be discussing many genre's of film not just Australian Film, this is my first post away from Australian Film and I have decided to discuss a Short Film that I rate as one of my all time favourites. Buster Keaton's The Boat. Last year I watched "The General", Keaton's acknowledged masterpiece and was completely entranced by it, I had previously watched some silent movies and had not really gotten into them. But I found The General very different and still rate it as one my favourite movies. After watching The General I had to see more Keaton so I did the BIG plunge and purchased The Art of Buster Keaton (Released by Kino), every single short and feature film that Keaton released whilst he had he own studio, oh an one in which he was merely an actor "The Saphead". In amongst this wonderful set, is The Boat. a short first released in November 1921. The premise is that Keaton having built a boat "The Damfino" dec...