Buster Keaton on Snopes.com

[silentfilm]

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.

[Daniel Eagan]

Long way to go to say he might have used prop ties.

[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:

[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.

Jim

[Paul Penna]

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.

[silentfilm]

And Buster Keaton makes another fact-checking website, and Jeff Rapsis' website helps them out...

https://factly.in/edited-video-from-a-m ... rst-train/