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Buster Keaton's Senior Big Thing
David Bianculli: Entertainment and advertising were intertwined right from the start of the 20th century. He says when Buster Keaton is born, 1895 in Pequay, Kansas, it's just a couple months away from the date that movies are projected for the first time by the Lumiere brothers. And so that means as he's traveling with these shows, which when he joined the act around age five, start to become top line vaudeville shows in the best circuits, they're showing movies with every show.
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