July 16 - 7:00pm
Featuring The Hayseed Roscoe Arbuckle (1919) 18 mins & Back Stage Roscoe Arbuckle (1919) 18 mins. 2 of the more than a dozen films Buster Keaton made as an “apprentice” for Roscoe (“Fatty”) Arbuckle between 1917-1919, the very beginning of his illustrious screen career. These 2 late collaborations show clear evidence of Buster’s growing creative involvement in the process, with a refinement & restraint much closer to Keaton’s style than to the loosely structured series of knockabout & slapstick gags that characterise Arbuckle’s comedy.
* Followed by The Palm Beach Story at 7.50pm and Remember The Night at 9.30pm.