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A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride

From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic cinematic career across the many tracks he rode along on screen: as a young man in the surge of his silent movie ascent in Our Hospitality, while making his masterpiece The General, and traversing the width of Canada on a railway speeder car as an old man in The Railrodder.

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  • Buster Keaton

    Buster Keaton

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  • Roscoe Arbuckle

    Roscoe Arbuckle

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  • Marion Mack

    Marion Mack

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  • Sybil Seely

    Sybil Seely

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  • Joe Keaton

    Joe Keaton

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  • Natalie Talmadge

    Natalie Talmadge

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  • Joe Roberts

    Joe Roberts

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  • Glen Cavender

    Glen Cavender

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  • Red Skelton

    Red Skelton

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From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic cinematic career across the many tracks he rode along on screen: as a young man in the surge of his silent movie ascent in Our Hospitality, while making his masterpiece The General, and traversing the width of Canada on a railway speeder car as an old man in The Railrodder.

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