Buster Keaton: In His Own Words
On the air · 1960 · Weekly
WFMT Chicago
WFMT Chicago · 1960–1960
Broadcasts
1
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1960
The run
- Network
- WFMT Chicago
- Years active
- 1960–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 1
- Genre
- talk
Studs Terkel interviewed Buster Keaton in Chicago on 5 September 1960, shortly after the release of When Comedy Was King, a compilation of silent shorts by Keaton, Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and others. Keaton describes how the early silents were shot, how gags and chase sequences were built with almost nothing scripted, the stylistic differences between his work and Chaplin's, the renewed European interest in the silent classics, and specific routines from The Frozen North, Sherlock Jr. and The Navigator. The conversation closes with his thoughts on playing television to a live audience. Public-domain transfer held by the Internet Archive.
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Public domain — no renewed US copyright
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