This week the fact-checking site snopes.com added an article asking Did Buster Keaton Perform This Dangerous Train Stunt? It is not about the film-ending train crash from The General (1927), although they touch on that, but about him clearing the tracks of railroad ties meant to stop his train.
Re: Buster Keaton on Snopes.com
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:21 am
by Daniel Eagan
Long way to go to say he might have used prop ties.
Re: Buster Keaton on Snopes.com
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 11:15 am
by Zepfanman
There's a quote in that Snopes article mentioning the boulder scene in Seven Chances. In case you need a reminder how insane those stunts where, he's the 4-minute segment:
Re: Buster Keaton on Snopes.com
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 12:11 pm
by Jim Roots
But my understanding is that most of those boulders were papier-mache. Not all of them, but quite a few.
He does get hit by one of them, which, if it were real, would have either sent him flying or squashed him like a bug. It's not an obvious hit, but it is visible in the finished film.
But my understanding is that most of those boulders were papier-mache. Not all of them, but quite a few.
He does get hit by one of them, which, if it were real, would have either sent him flying or squashed him like a bug. It's not an obvious hit, but it is visible in the finished film.
Jim
Yeah, you don't usually see boulders bouncing around like basketballs in nature.
Re: Buster Keaton on Snopes.com
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2021 8:47 pm
by silentfilm
And Buster Keaton makes another fact-checking website, and Jeff Rapsis' website helps them out...