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Battling Butler / The General with Jamelle Bouie

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The General's Gun

Patreon got rid of stretch goals and tears because we could have said it at 2 million subscribers. We will buy the General, which is currently stationed I think in Georgia or something. This movie was shot in Oregon because he went to the original locations in Georgia near Chattanooga and he said it just didn't look good. The gun, however, that they use is an actual gun from the Civil War. It's the first railroad gun according to Buster Keaton. He almost excluded it from the movie because he was like, people will think this is a Buster Keaton invention for the sake of a gag.

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