Buster Keaton unknown film ???

Buster95 · Post by **Buster95** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:01 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/BUSTER-KEATON-16mm- ... 231263fa29

boblipton · Post by **boblipton** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:10 pm

In his ghosted autobiography, Keaton tells the story that to get a job at his studio, you had to take a test. The first question was

1: Do you know anything that would be useful in making a comedy film?

and the second was

2: Can you play baseball?

Passing score was 50%

Apparently they played a lot of baseball on the lot, and this might be a gag reel derived from that. Or it might be the annual comic's game. Keaton and later Joe E. Brown were regulars. Heck, it might be GRAND SLAM OPERA.

Whatever it is, ten grand sounds like a tremendous amount of money.

Bob

Jack Theakston · Post by **Jack Theakston** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:13 pm

Looks like newsreel footage to me. If it was printed in 16mm for distribution with cards like this, I imagine it's not that incredibly rare.

Post by **silentfilm** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:57 pm

It's probably just the baseball scenes from College (1927), where Keaton does in fact play third base...

Tommy Stathes · Post by **Tommy Stathes** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:35 pm

There really should be a webpage with proper SEO keywording that people with home movie prints can Google and find easily... basically telling them "There's a 99% chance your mass-produced toy film print is not worth more than $20, if that much."

Probably the kind of page I would put together!

ColemanShedman · Post by **ColemanShedman** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:10 pm

I'm "watching" it anyway on ebay. Want to see if there are any bids.

Little Caesar · Post by **Little Caesar** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:56 pm

$10,000? Are there Zeppelins in this film too?

allday · Post by **allday** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 1:35 pm

I actually have this myself, and can report that Third Baseman is just the baseball scene from College.

David Kalat

ColemanShedman · Post by **ColemanShedman** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:27 pm

I Sent the person a msg. to that effect but got no response.

Jim Reid · Post by **Jim Reid** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:31 pm

ColemanShedman wrote:I Sent the person a msg. to that effect but got no response.

So did I.

herbertfilby · Post by **herbertfilby** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:20 am

Jim Reid wrote:
ColemanShedman wrote:I Sent the person a msg. to that effect but got no response.
So did I.

Me too, lol. I bet he's ticked he doesn't have Keaton's equivalent to Zepped

Little Caesar · Post by **Little Caesar** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:18 am

Our favorite item has been relisted, but only at twenty bucks this time!
http://cgi.ebay.com/BUSTER-KEATON-16mm- ... 2312b62a22

LongRider · Post by **LongRider** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:22 pm

Now it's been re-listed for the third time, for $19.95 again. On the next re-listing the seller might want to start the bidding at $0.01 and see what happens.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... 0641926497" target="_blank

Cheers,
Maureen

Buster Keaton unknown film ???

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