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Three Ages / Our Hospitality with Dana Stevens

Blank Check with Griffin & David

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Chaplin's Father Time

Buster Keaton's first feature was a Saaphead, which is why it tends to drop out of retrospectives. He had been making films at this point already for six years or so but yeah, they were all shorts and not independent until 1920. This is primordial shit in several different ways for him and his career,. Feature length comedies are pretty unusual in 1923.

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