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Common terms and phrasesappears Arbuckle audience become begins Buster Buster Keaton called camera Chaplin Charlie Charlie's chase child circus City Lights climbs clowns comedian comedy comes comic dance door Douglas Fairbanks Edna entirely Essanay eyes face fact Fairbanks fantasy film comedy film's Ford Sterling frame funny girl Grandma's Boy Griffith hand happens Harold Harold Lloyd Harry Harry Langdon head instantly Jackie joke Keaton Keystone kiss Langdon later laugh Laurel and Hardy leaps Lloyd look Mabel Normand Mack Swain matter Miss move narrative never Oliver Hardy once Paulette photographed play policeman promptly racing reel rhythm Roach screen seems Sennett sequence Sherlock Jr short comedies shot silent film simply sound sound film speed stage star street studio theater thing train Tramp turn two-reelers vaudeville visual waiting wanted watch window References to this bookFrom other books
From Google ScholarReconsidering Buster Keaton's HeroinesBarbara E Savedoff - 1997 - Philosophy and Literature The Melancholy of Absence: Reassessing the Role of Film in Tender ...Alan Bilton - 2006 - The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review American Transcendental Vision: Emerson To ChaplinBill R Scalia - 2002 Comedy In The Theatre Of AzorinLEIGH ADRIENNE SIMONE - 2001 Bibliographic information
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