[HN Gopher] Buster Keaton in The Railrodder (1965)
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Buster Keaton in The Railrodder (1965)
Author : brudgers
Score : 23 points
Date : 2021-02-05 03:52 UTC (19 hours ago)
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| loevborg wrote:
| Wonderful little movie - just watched it. A little sad because of
| the nostalgia for the silent movie era. So nice that the movie is
| simply available on the NFB website.
| KSS42 wrote:
| Another Canadian connection.
|
| From the Archives: Buster Keaton's Toronto connection
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| (includes Youtube link to his last film: a 30-minute documentary
| on construction safety)
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| https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/01/28/from-the-archive...
| mushamalizat wrote:
| It is available:
| https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=6923061
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| rexreed wrote:
| And at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYmcN12M97o
| kaycebasques wrote:
| Sherlock Jr. is always my recommendation for people who want to
| dip their toes into the truly wonderful world of Buster Keaton
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| "Shadow your man closely"
| trhway wrote:
| railrodders are fun. Three decades ago i've got to ride on DIY
| railrodders - an open wooden box/platform with bike engine
| driving the repurposed auto car wheels, "kludge" doesn't even
| start to describe the contraptions, glorious noise and vibration
| - people in that Russian town use those railrodders as a personal
| transportation mode into/from the forest as there is an abandoned
| "narrow width" ("uzkokoleyka") railway branching deep into the
| forest left over from the long time ago when it was used by
| timber industry. Riding it while drinking with the
| fishermen/huntsmen can't be farther from the Keaton's gentleman
| style :)
| ficklepickle wrote:
| That is so cool! I've always had a fascination with riding the
| rails. That sounds like a truly unique experience.
|
| Nowadays CN has pickup trucks with train wheels that
| raise/lower. An old roommate drove one for work, it sounded
| quite interesting.
| dhosek wrote:
| Those pickup trucks have been around since at least the 80s
| if not the 70s. I remember seeing them as a kid on the
| Burlington Northern tracks outside Chicago.
| tartoran wrote:
| Buster Keaton sadly died shortly after this was shot. After
| watching The Railroader I went on a marathon and watched most of
| his films and oh boy was he a brilliant man! So were Chaplin and
| Stan Laurel.
| ghaff wrote:
| Harold Lloyd is another silent film comedy great who is
| probably not nearly as well known today as he should be.
| Recognized for, among other things, doing pretty crazy stunt
| work by himself (although probably his most iconic image from
| Safety Last! was a trick shot).
| james_pm wrote:
| I have such good memories of watching this now and then on rainy
| days in elementary school. Always loved it. Paddle to the Sea was
| another one we saw often.
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| My wife bought me The Railrodder on VHS many years ago and I
| still have it. First thing I did was to make an MPEG version at
| work to save. The VHS has only been played once.
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| Now YouTube has it on my main page all the time and I've
| introduced it to my own kids.
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