Best of Buster Keaton's stunts 

Also when the front of the house falls down around him the window grazes his left arm/hand but he doesn't really give a shit.

zigstripes crack does not equal break

Why is he a badass if the cracking of a vertebra is not noticed? Some people have Siamese twins in their right nostril and do not notice...

And how do you know that it was exactly THIS stunt and not any of the other 10.000 dangerous ones?

While this clip was running, I was waiting for that water sequence, and then I thought about how I would write that comment.....that you made. So, there it is, yes, he was Badass number one (already as a baby by the way).

no way - thats not real!

@@crieverytim yeah it's actually is real. Look up buster Keaton video from "ever frame is a painting". The fact is also on his wiki

Because of that fall, buster was bedridden for three days. Unplanned falling was more injurious, I think.

From which movie is this scene from ?

@@VinayUG The Three Ages.

🧡👌

best way to describe it

In a documentary about Buster Keaton that was just on TMC said Bugs Bunny & the Road Runner’s attitude was based on Keaton

Cartoons get their gags from Cinema. What's new?

Ironically his movie Steamboat Bill Jr was the inspiration of Steamboat Willie.

He's not underrated, especially not now he's even received more recognition as being superior to chaplin.if anyone among his peers who are truly underrated they're his great mentor arbuckle, lloyd, langdon and last but certainly not least mr. charley chase.

+TheBookWorm1718 buster is a outstanding stunt actor

If you see it as competition, you're missing the are, friend. They're both truly great performers and it's a pleasure to watch them

at his early years Charlie shoots the comedy straightforward too.. but then he moved and try to create more feel rather than only pure comedy on his film.. "The kid" in which Charlie discovered the genius Jackie Coogan was the first Charlie film that made people sad in tears while laughing also.. noted that his new approach by using drama/story took his production times into twice as long as his previous short-movie and he only done it after he moved to USA

MJPamuru20, I totally agree with you. They are both superb artists. Different styles, and equally great. Saludos from Uruguay!

+FuujinZakii Yup, all of what you see in these movies are real :) But that wasn't without risks, Keaton was really close to the death a lots of time because of that. For the scene with the water tank, by example, he broken two vertebrae because the water's pressure under him.

No cgi, no stunt double

Don't forget the scene where he jumps from one building to the next. Not planned, broke his leg.

and then decided to keep it in the movie. A true genius comited to his art.

This is why i appreciate directors like Jackie Chan...they still carry Keatons spirit within their films

almost. some scenes were made with opticical tricks. = 2:05 / 1:35 for example

Yeah that's the thing about slapstick. But mr. Smith is right, too.

Mr. Smith 1:35 wasn’t trick, that was actually real

@@pamthespam6964 actually after looking into it, it was a fake building jump. He actually planned to make it though, and when he fell he injured himself. They decided to use the footage and combined it with the awnings shot

@@zakfrisch2997 I think it cuts to the shot they filmed after he injured himself when he grabs on to the awning, I think most of the fall is real lol

Buster Keaton, the greatest film comedian of all time. Watch "Sherlock Jr." or "Our Hospitality".

That's the beauty of Buster. He was a wonderful man. Brilliant.

TCM will sometimes show his movies on Sunday Silent Night. Otherwise, you can get a lot of his movies on dvd

Another great movie of his (there were a few scenes in this video from it) was a movie called "COPS". Buster is erroneously accused of being an anarchist who throws a bomb at a police parade and has the entire police department chasing him. Great film and awesome stunts!

His best films were the ones he directed himself under his own production company. See his masterpiece, The General and other terrific films, Sherlock, Jr, The Navigator and more!!

tom cruise

jukeboxx dude this guy did even more dangerous shit than Tom cruise

yes of course buster keaton is a legend, bu tom cruise has some impresive stunts,.

jukeboxx buster keaton broke some of his neck vertebrae and didn't realise until years later

riiiiiiiight...........

And it's not even close.

That's your opinion and you're entitled to it!.

hal biggiam Sorry But Charlie Chaplin is Silent Film King.

Chaplin is second to Keaton

No pun intended, sadly

I'm sure you do remember correctly, and that was Keaton's recollection--except that, according to Roger Ebert, he had the nickname before Houdini met him. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-films-of-buster-keaton

yeah, the family did a vaudeville act, where the mother sat stage left, playing sax, the father and buster center stage, buster would disobey his father till his father would toss him into the scenery, orchestra pit, even the audience! They even would sew suitcase handles on busters clothes to make the tosses easier. Buster used to crack up laughing during being thrown, and got fewer laughs, so developed his stone face deadpan look at that time!

@@damienkobain2989 didnt they also do the aristocrats act?

Marek Bari incredible isn't he!

...yes. like a toon

But could the switch be executed that quickly without a cut? I watched it at least ten times trying to figure it out. Maybe if that section of the back wall swung down to fill the gap Keaton had just gone though... There is a slight "flash" or jump, but I can't tell if it's an edit or just the typical flicker effect you get with really old film, because it happens again a few seconds later. The other actors don't really change position, so if it's a cut it's incredibly well done. It's ingenious either way.

No, there's no cut at all! They never could've engineered it back then. Actors would've had to be stone statues, and the replacements themselves would have to be dead-on-ringers. This was not possible! There was no switch of any kind, either. That's why I laid out how I thought it happened. If you laid flat on a platform with your arms hanging down and face forward, that's the position the actress is in at first. If you had a way to suddenly drop down, like I described, and had your arms over something to hold you up , in place while you made the move, it would work. In fact, you see some small movement of her head and arms and shoulders at the right moment if you look hard. The wall would have to have been swiftly placed in position behind her as she made the move, I would think. There might have been another way. The dress would have been very loose at the bottom. Even on a platform at shoulder height, if the dress was big enough, Buster could have passed through that trick suitcase right out through the bottom of the dress, since the bottom of the dress would have stretched upward and the pleat would have been open as high as the platform. I admit it is kind of hard to explain, and hard to conceptualize or picture in your mind. But remember all kinds of magician tricks rely on just this kind of trickery!

junkdeal The way the stunt was done is revealed in several books on Buster Keaton. It was an old trick from vaudeville, that he later performed on Ed Sullivan. Sullivan called him later and begged him to let him know how it was done. Anyway, there is a secret panel in the wall that tilts inward. The "woman" is a man in a dress. The box he is holding has a hinge in it to allow the panel to tilt up. As soon as the man stood against the wall, two people inside lifted up the panel, grabbed the mans ankles and pulled his whole body upward and horizontal. The man continued to hold the box by the sides, but behind it was clear. The dress was weighted down at the bottom so it would hang straight. Buster jumped into the panel in the box, which tilted upward to allow him to pass through it and just beneath the body of the man that was being held up. As soon as he passed through, the assistants lowered down the man, and the false door along with him,

Ahh, I think I get it now.

Kevin Mcgue So actually I took a pretty good guess and ended up close!

Hear Hear! i'm so glad someone still truly appreciates this kind of movie comedy especially in this pc and digital world we live in. i'm also glad what've you stated here.

Oh! what about a laurel and hardy or the three stooges movie as well ?.

Or ben stiller,seth rogen,jim carrey and marlon wayans films as well.

Same here pal. i can't argue with you on that statement you written. is it me but american film comedy hasn't been the same since the nineties, granted there were still a lot of poor film comedies but not to this extent. actually film comedy never really been the same since the end of silent era in my opinion.

And don't forget harold.

2018 is same

2019 the same, too.

gdh1984 Really they didn’t care if he died? No waver to sign?

Haa Lau 2020 is the same. Movies could save a lot of money if they didn’t CGI stunts but today only very few people aren’t lazy to learn these things so movies(unless the director makes them or the actor/actress wants to learn there own stunts) so in most movies a stunt double does all of the stunts

2020 is the same!!

+Walter-Jorg Langbein Check out the great buster:a celebration,on dvd/blu-ray ,coming out tuesday april 2nd

1920s music is unique, and so fitting to so much silent film. All the music in Singin' in the Rain is authentic 20s music by Nacio Herb Brown. I'm sure the lyrics were all by one of his partners, name not remembered.

Sami TheWeirdOne sorry, off topic, but I love your profile picture!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Jlph4Mu4KQ8.html Really great and well made.

Not Jackass but welcome Jackie Chan

No problem, thank you for watching! Hope you enjoyed : )

But they were the pioneers. Nothing to fall back on, no stand ins, no retakes.

And he was still incredibly fit.

@@TheAureliac True! Buster was probably in better shape when he passed than most half his age today...including me, and I work hard for a living.

Did he break some others bones of his body ?

You've got it backwards. The best of Woody Allen (in his early years) was a little like something from an average Keaton short.

Buster Keaton was far more talented, he made films for people to enjoy. Woody Allen makes the movies for himself

But many have in sense did pay homage to him in their films

I believe that Buster Keaton was Woody Allen's inspiration. For instance The Purple Rose Of Cairo was inspired by Sherlock Jr.

That was a good episode. It was called "Once Upon A Time". It was part silent and part "talkie ". The silent part was where his character Milligan was living in 1890. The sound part was where he traveled to the year 1962.

Melissa Cooper I love that episode. Too bad, it doesn't seem to be a fan favorite of The Twilight Zone. I rarely hear anyone talk about it.

how are you man?

I hope you got an A.

@@lan2941 lol im chillen, living life

@@punch6832 thank you!!! that was years ago, but I did for sure : D

@@XxRaWrXoXoxX nice

All quiet on the western front

That is one that would stay in his bag of tricks. I guess the newspaper must have been made out of canvas so it would hold together as it was being unfolded.