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The Playhouse
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Buster Keaton buys a ticket at entrance of the Playhouse and joins an audience (consisting of Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton, and Buster Keaton) to watch a variety show featuring musicians, comics, synchronized dancers, and a minstrel act — with Keaton filling every role, including that of stagehand. It turns out it was All Just a Dream as Keaton wakes up in a bedroom — actually a stage set that is promptly dismantled. He plays various roles behind the scenes and onstage while pursuing one of the show girls, who is a twin, only slightly daunted by his tendency to confuse the friendly twin with her disinterested sister.This film is in the public domain and may be viewed in its entirety at Google Video. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: Buster's treatment of the punch clock. (Ooh, right in the face!) | |
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The Stoic | |
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The Stoic: Subverted; Buster is visibly annoyed at one point after mixing up the twins again, and he's very expressive while pretending to be an orangutan. | |
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Painted Tunnel, Real Train | |
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Painted Tunnel, Real Train: Buster appears to dive into the painted ocean backdrop (in reality he jumps through a slit in the canvas). | |
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Undercrank | |
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Undercrank: Used for the Zouave Guards routine. | |
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Adults Dressed as Children | |
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Adults Dressed as Children: Buster dons the traditional sailor suit to portray a juvenile audience member. | |
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Sibling Team | |
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Sibling Team: The sisters. (Oddly, their act does not exploit the fact that they are identical twins.) | |
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Everything's Better with Monkeys | |
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Everything's Better with Monkeys: One of the acts is a performing orangutan. | |
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Polar Opposite Twins | |
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Polar Opposite Twins: Buster falls in love with a girl, who reciprocates; unfortunately, he keeps mixing her up with her twin sister, who doesn't. | |
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Loads and Loads of Roles | |
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Loads and Loads of Roles: Buster plays not only every member of the audience (which includes several couples, an old woman, and a little kid), he also plays every member of a nine-man minstrel show—and all nine are on-screen at the same time. | |
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Proscenium Reveal | |
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Proscenium Reveal: The dismantling of Buster Keaton's "bedroom". | |
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Backwards-Firing Gun | |
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Backwards-Firing Gun: Happens with a wrongly assembled cannon. | |
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Man on Fire | |
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Man on Fire: Smoking while wearing a false beard = bad idea. | |
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Human Ladder | |
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Human Ladder: Both ladders and an inverted pyramid during the Zouave Guards act. | |
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Minstrel Shows | |
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Minstrel Shows | |
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Drag Queen | |
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Drag Queen: Buster Keaton plays all the audience members — including a flapper with bobbed hair, a harried mother, and a tetchy society dame. | |
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Scooby-Dooby Doors | |
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Scooby-Dooby Doors: Buster thinks this is what's happening after he unknowingly escorts identical twin sisters into separate yet adjacent dressing rooms. Played straight in a later chase scene. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Buster tries to empty the twins' glass-walled water tank with a teacup. In his defense, he had suffered a Tap on the Head not long before. | |
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Tap on the Head | |
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Tap on the Head | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: The theater program crediting Buster Keaton with every role, and the audience member's remark, "This fellow Keaton seems to be the whole show," are jabs at silent film director/actor/screenwriter/producer Thomas H. Ince, who was not shy about putting his name in the credits of his films. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
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It Makes Sense in Context: Buster pretending he's an orangutan. | |
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Exploding Fish Tanks | |
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Exploding Fish Tanks: The twins' act involves a large glass tank filled with water, which is smashed to prevent a drowning. | |
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Pantomime Animal | |
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Pantomime Animal | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Literal-Minded: When Buster is told to clock in for the day, he looks at the sign reading "punch clock". So he does. When the actor-stage manager sets his false beard on fire while smoking, Buster runs toward an axe behind glass labelled "For Fire Only". He thinks for a moment, then smashes the glass, grabs the axe, and hits the actor's burning beard with it (though not with the blade!). | |
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Super Not-Drowning Skills | |
| The Playhouse / int_e5bb2929 | comment |
Super Not-Drowning Skills: The point of the twins' act: "This young lady can stay under water longer than the bottom of a river." | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: The first part of the short. | |
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No More for Me | |
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No More for Me: When Buster first meets the twins, he only sees one of them at a time; when he first sees them together, he thinks he is having a drunken hallucination, so he runs into a back room and removes a bottle of booze from his pocket. Then he finds the twins looking at themselves in mirrors, convinces himself that now the girl has quadrupled herself, and returns to the back room, where he smashes the bottle against the floor and signs a resolution "never to drink anymore". After seeing his own reflection in a triple mirror and establishing that the girls are twins and the "other two" were just reflections, he changes his mind and adds "but just as much" to his resolution. | |
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