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Auction History Result 2f1805 PLAYHOUSE deluxe 8x10 still 1921 Buster Keaton w/ Virginia Fox & Joe Roberts, ultra rare! Date Sold 6/7/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Deluxe 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) The Playhouse (also known as "The Play House"), the 1921 Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton silent fantasy slapstick comedy short (about a man who works as a stagehand in a playhouse; the long opening of the movie shows the performance of a play where every single actor is Buster Keaton, and so are the people who work at the theater; this is revealed to be a dream of the stagehand, but then the rest of the movie is almost as inventive, with all the actors at the real playhouse quitting, and Buster and the few remaining workers must take all the parts, and there is a pair of pretty twin sisters, and Buster wants romance with them, but he can't tell them apart) starring Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Virginia Fox, Joe Murphy, and Joe Roberts. Note that this is a most unusual Buster Keaton comedy short, completely unlike his others. It has few actors and almost none of the physical comedy Keaton was famous for. That is because he was needing to let his broken ankle heal (broken in his last film), so he had to come up with a different sort of comedy. Part of that new comedy involved a special film process that allowed Keaton to be filmed over and over within the same scene, allowing many of him to be seen on camera at the same time. This was so completely Buster Keaton's work that he took onscreen credit for everything done in the movie, and he even left all the other actors uncredited! Many people consider this Buster Keaton's finest comedy short, and it was certainly far ahead of its time. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this deluxe still has a still code that begins with "K-N", which we have seen on other Keaton shorts from this time period. We don't know if that has additional meaning, and if it could possibly mean that this great still is from an early re-release (or possibly an early compilation of Keaton shorts). We are identifying this still as being from the 1921 Keaton short "The Playhouse" (but we can't say for certain that it is from the 1921 release of it), so PLEASE do not bid on this still unless you can accept the possibility that it might not be from 1921 (although it is surely from either 1921 or shortly after). If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here.
UPDATED 05/25/2022: Note that a knowledgeable collector pointed out that this still is from The Playhouse and not The Balloonatic as we originally mentioned. Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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