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My embarrassing day is coming: Someone will,in the future, post a genuine train wreck photo and I’ll say “Oh, it’s that set piece from The General” before even looking!
The sequence that is considered the most expensive shot in the Silent Era is the climactic train crash in Buster Keaton’s epic comedy “The General”. At $42,000 (in 1927 dollars), the cost was more than 10% of the film’s budget. Because this was a time before CGI, Keaton, shooting in Oregon, took a real locomotive, a real bridge and set up multiple cameras. He then lit the bridge on fire, yelled “action” and captured the wreck on film all in one take.
Mabel Normand in A LITTLE HERO (1913), dir. George Nichols
Buster Keaton
Heinz Schulz-Neudamm Metropolis. 1926.
Buster Keaton, photographed by Melbourne Spurr, 1926
Metropolis (1927) Set Preserved in the German Cinema Museum
How did his body wololouahgdula like that.
Buster Keaton - The Haunted House (1921)
Why does Charlie Chaplin look like a lesbian