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Buster Keaton Rides Again
196555 min 25 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: John Spotton
Production: Julian Biggs
Script: Donald Brittain
In this film Keaton rides across Canada on a railway scooter and, between times, rests in a specially appointed passenger coach where he and Mrs. Keaton lived during their Canadian film assignment. This film is about how Buster Keaton made a Canadian travel film, The Railrodder. In this informal study the comedian regales the film crew with anecdotes of a lifetime in show business. Excerpts from his silent slapstick films are shown.
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Subject categories
- Film and Video Arts > ActingPortraits
- Arts Education > Visual Arts
Credits
- director
- John Spotton
- photography
- John Spotton
- editing
- John Spotton
- producer
- Julian Biggs
- script
- Donald Brittain
- sound
- Barry Ferguson
- sound editing
- Sidney Pearson
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander
- George Croll
- narrator
- Michael Kane
- music
- Malca Gillson
Awards
- Best Film - Category: Information FilmGenie Awards
- First Prize - Category: Medium Length FilmsFestival of Canadian Films - Montreal International Film Festival
- Silver Trophy - Category: DocumentaryGolden Gate Awards Competition & International Film Festival
- CIDALC Special PrizeInternational Exhibition of the Documentary Film
- Special Prize for Best Biographical DocumentaryInternational Film Festival
- First Prize - Category: Music, Literature and FilmsItinerant - American Film and Video Festival
- Special Prize awarded to BUster KeatonInternational Contest of Public Relations
- MIFED Gold MedalInternational Contest of Public Relations