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Educational Pictures Shorts 1934-39
"Allez Oop" [Feb 1934]
Co-directed by Charles Lamont; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"The Gold Ghost" [March 1934]
Co-directed by Charles Lamont; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Palooka from Paducah" [Jan 1935]
Directed by Charles Lamont; with Joe & Myra & Louise Keaton
video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Hayseed Romance" [March 1935]
Directed by Charles Lamont; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Tars and Stripes" [May 1935]
Co-directed by Charles Lamont; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"The E-Flat Man" [Aug 1935]
Directed by Charles Lamont; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"The Timid Young Man" [Oct 1935]
Directed by Mack Sennett; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"One Run Elmer" [1935]
Directed by Buster Keaton; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Three On A Limb" [Jan 1936]
Directed by Charles Lamont; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Blue Blazes" [Aug 1936]
Co-directed by Raymond Kane; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Mixed Magic" [Nov 1936]
Co-directed by Raymond Kane; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Grand Slam Opera" [1936]
Co-directed by Charles Lamont; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"The Chemist" [1936]
Directed by Al Christie; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Jail Bait" [Jan 1937]
Directed by Charles Lamont; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Ditto" [Feb 1937]
Directed by Charles Lamont; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Love Nest On Wheels" [March 1937]
Co-directed by Charles Lamont; with Myra & Louise & Harry Keaton
video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Mooching Through Georgia" [Aug 1939]
Directed by Jules White; video not available; full credits from IMDb
Troubled Times
"Le Roi des Champs-Elysees" [Nero Films, France 1934]
French-language feature, directed by Max Nosseck; never theatrically released in the U.S.
PicPal/Videobrary may still carry this rare title; full credits from IMDb
"The Invader" [aka 'An Old Spanish Custom'; [B&C/MGM 1935]
Directed by Adrian Brunel; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"La Fiesta de Santa Barbara" [MGM short; Dec 1935]
All-star cast; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs" [MGM short; Aug 1936]
All-star cast; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Hollywood Hobbies" [MGM short; May 1939]
All-star cast; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Pest from the West" [Columbia remake of 1935 'The Invader'; June 1939]
Directed by Del Lord; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Hollywood Cavalcade" [Fox Oct 1939]
All-star cast; co-directed by Buster Keaton, Irving Cummings & Malcolm St. Clair
video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Nothing But Pleasure" [Columbia short Jan 1940]
Directed by Jules White; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 6" [Columbia short April 1940]
All-star cast; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Taming of the Snood" [Columbia short June 1940]
Directed by Jules White; video not available; full credits from IMDb
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"New Moon" [July 1940] Nelson Eddy-Jeaneatte MacDonald musical (Buster is uncredited in 2 roles) Warner Video b&w VHS [11/92] for $19.98 full credits from IMDb |
"The Spook Speaks" [Columbia short Sept 1940]
Directed by Jules White; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"The Villain Still Pursued Her" [Oct 1940]
Directed by Edward F. Cline; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Pardon My Berth Marks" [Columbia short 1940]
Directed by Jules White; video not available; full credits from IMDb
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"Al Capp's Li'l Abner" [Nov 1940] Directed by Albert S. Rogell Madacy Ent. b&w VHS [11/95] for $4.95 full credits from IMDb |
"His Ex Marks the Spot" [Columbia short Dec 1940]
Directed by Jules White; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"So You Won't Squawk" [Columbia short 1941]
Directed by Del Lord; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Screen Snapshots Series 20 No. 1" [Columbia short Aug 1941]
All-star cast; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"General Nuisance" [short 1941]
video not available; credits from IMDb
"She's Oil Mine" [Columbia short Nov 1941]
Directed by Jules White; video not available; full credits from IMDb
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"Forever and A Day" [Jan 1943] Huge cast, multiple directors Image Ent b&w DVD [10/98] for $22.49 Home Vision b&w VHS [5/98] for $19.95 full credits from IMDb |
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"Two Girls & A Sailor" [MGM June 1944]
Starring June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven & Van Johnson (Buster is uncredited) Warner Video b&w/color VHS [5/90] for $19.98 Great Music Themes soundtrack CD [5/98] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
"San Diego, I Love You" [Universal 1944]
Directed by Reginald Le Borg; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"That's the Spirit" [Universal June 1945]
Directed by Charles Lamont; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"She Went To The Races" [MGM Nov 1945]
Directed by Willis Goldbeck; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"That Night With You" [Universal 1945]
Directed by William A. Seiter; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"God's Country" [Action Pictures March 1946]
Directed by R. E. Tansey; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"El Moderno Barba Azul" [1946]
aka "Boom In The Moon" & "A Modern Bluebeard"
Directed by Jaime Salvador
UMVD VHS [8/87] out of stock/used;
full credits from IMDb
"The Lovable Cheat" [May 1949]
Directed by Richard Oswald, starring Charles Ruggles
video not available; full credits from IMDb
"You're My Everything" [Fox musical 1949]
Starring Dan Dailey & Anne Baxter; video not available; full credits from IMDb
Rediscovery
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"In The Good Old Summertime" [M.G.M. July 1949]
A musical version of Lubitch's "The Shop Around The Corner" [1940]: Two young people who can't stand each other at their job are unknowingly romantic pen-pals. Co-directed & co-written by & co-starring Buster Keaton {uncredited}; co-directed by Robert Z. Leonard; starring Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall & Spring Byington Warner Home Video color DVD [4/2004] for $14.99 Warner Home Video color VHS [5/90] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb |
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"Sunset Boulevard" [Paramount Aug 1950]
Directed by Billy Wilder; starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim & Buster Keaton Paramount b&w VHS [1/96] for $13.99 Paramount b&w DVD [11/2002] for $18.74 full credits from IMDb |
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"The Misadventures Of Buster Keaton" [1950]
Anchor Bay b&w VHS [9/91] for $9.99 Stardance Ent b&w VHS [12/94] for $19.95 credits at IMDb |
"The Buster Keaton Show" [weekly tv series 1950]
"Life with Buster Keaton" [tv show 1951]
video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Herrliche Zeiten (Wonderful Times)" [April 1951]
All-star cast; video not available; full credits from IMDb
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Charlie Chaplin's "Limelight" [United Artists 1952] Starring Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce & Buster Keaton Fox Video b&w VHS [11/92] for $19.98 Image Ent b&w DVD [4/2000] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
"Paradise For Buster" [1952 John Deere commercial?]
Directed by Del Lord; video not available; full credits from IMDb
"L'Incantevole Nemica" [1952]
Italian language feature; full credits from IMDb
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"Around The World In 80 Days" [Todd/UA Oct 1956]
Starring David Niven, Cantinflas & Shirley MacLaine Warner color VHS [2/2002] 2 tapes for $17.98 Warner VHS w/Spanish subtitles [2/2002] 2 tapes for $17.98 Universal/MCA soundtrack CD [1/87] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
 | "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [MGM Aug 1960] Directed by Michael Curtiz Turner Home Video VHS [8/94] for $14.99 full credits from IMDb |
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Twilight Zone: "Once Upon A Time" [tv series episode Dec 15, 1960]
Fox b&w VHS [Vol 20 9/94] 2 episodes for $12.98 Image Ent DVD [Vol 10 4/2001] 4 episodes for $13.49 episode info from TV Tome |
Buster Keaton clips & shorts are featured on the 1960 & 1963 volumes of
Robert G. Youngson's "Kings of Comedy Collection" documentaries
"The Golden Age of Comedy" [D.C.A. Dec 1957]
"When Comedy Was King" [Fox March 1960]
"Days of Thrills and Laughter" [Fox March 1961]
"30 Years of Fun" [Fox Feb 1963]
these & other Buster Keaton content are available on
Magic Lantern's Robert G. Youngson [1917-74] Page
"Ten Girls Ago" [filmed 1962, but never released]
video not available; not listed on IMDb
"Nickelodeon Days" [1962]
compilation including Keaton's "Cops" of 1922
video not available; full credits from IMDb
"The Triumph of Lester Snapwell" [industrial short 1963]
video not available; credits from IMDb
"The Sound of Laughter" [Union Film compilation 1963]
Directed by John O'Shaughnessy
video not available; full credits from IMDb
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"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" [U.A. Nov 1963] Directed by Stanley Kramer; all-star cast MGM/UA color VHS [8/95] 2 tapes for $22.48 MGM/UA color DVD [9/2001] for $14.98 Ryko soundtrack CD [11/97] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
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"The Great Chase" [1963 documentary]
Home Vision b&w VHS [10/96] for $19.95 Image Ent b&w DVD [6/99] for $22.49 full credits from IMDb |
 | "M.G.M.'s Big Parade of Comedy" [M.G.M. Sept 1964]
Co-produced, written & directed by Robert Youngson; narrated by Les Tremayne; featuring clips of Bud Abbott & Lou Costello, Lucille Ball, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Benchley, Marion Davies, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, W.C. Fields, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Jean Harlow, Ted Healy & The Three Stooges, Katharine Hepburn, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, Carole Lombard, The Marx Brothers, "The Thin Man" [1934] & Spencer Tracy DVD/Blu-ray not available; Warner Video b&w VHS [1/93] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb |
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"Pajama Party" [AIP Nov 1964] Starring Annette Funicello & Frankie Avalon, with Buster as 'Chief Rotten Eagle' MGM/UA color VHS [7/2001] for $9.94 MGM/UA color DVD [12/2001] for $13.46 full credits from IMDb |
"The Man Who Bought Paradise" [tv movie Jan 1965]
video not available; full credits from IMDb
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"Beach Blanket Bingo" [AIP April 1965] Starring Annette Funicello & Frankie Avalon Goodtimes color VHS [4/95] for $7.95 MGM/UA widescreen DVD [6/2001] for $13.46 full credits from IMDb |
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"How to Stuff a Wild Bikini" [AIP July 1965] Starring Annette Funicello & Frankie Avalon MGM/UA color VHS [7/2001] for $9.94 MGM/UA widescreen DVD [5/2001] for $13.46 full credits from IMDb |
"Sergeant Deadhead" [AIP Aug 1965]
Starring Frankie Avalon & Deborah Walley; video not available; full credits from IMDb
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"The Railrodder" {aka 'The Railroader'}
[25-minute National Film Board of Canada short 1965] full credits from IMDb plus 'Buster Keaton Rides Again' [docu 1965] (55-minute NFBC documentary on the making of 'The Railrodder') full credits from IMDb (both) Kino Video VHS [11/96] for $29.95 (both) Image Ent DVD [2/2001] for $22.49 |
Samuel Beckett's 'Film' [20-minute b&w silent short 1966]
Directed by Alan Schneider;
video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb
"The Scribe" [30-minute Canadian b&w short May 1966]
Directed by John Sebert; video not available; full credits from IMDb
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"A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" [Quadrangle/UA Oct 1966] Directed by Richard Lester MGM/UA color DVD [5/2001] for $16.99 MGM/UA color VHS [1/98] for $13.99 Ryko soundtrack CD [7/98] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
"War Italian Style" {aka 'Due marines e un generale'} [filmed 1965, released Jan 1967]
video not available; full credits from IMDb
Later Compilations & Documentaries
"The Great Stone Face" [1968]
video not available; credits from IMDb
 | "Four Clowns" [Fox b&w docu feature 1970] Written & directed by Robert Youngson; co-starring Laurel & Hardy and Charley Chase video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb |
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"That's Entertainment!: 50 Years of M.G.M." [M.G.M. June 1974]
Co-produced, written & directed by Jack Haley, Jr.; various segments were hosted by the studio's legendary (and then-living) stars: Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli (representing her mother, Judy Garland), Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, and Elizabeth Taylor Warner Home Video widescreen color DVD [10/2004] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb • Part 1 movie entry at Wikipedia |
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"Hollywood" Volume 10: "The Man With The Megaphone" [Thames Television/HBO mini-series 1980] Written & directed by Kevin Brownlow & David Gill H.B.O. VHS [Vol 10] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
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"Buster Keaton: A Hard Act To Follow" [H.B.O. mini-series 1987]
Written & directed by Kevin Brownlow & David Gill H.B.O. b&w VHS box set [8/89] 3 tapes for $34.99 "From Vaudeville To Movies": b&w [8/89] out of stock/used "Star Without A Studio": b&w [8/89] out of stock/used "Genius Recognized": b&w [8/89] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
"The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies" [Silver/HBO tv 1995]
Co-written & directed by Chuck Workman; video/DVD not available; credits from IMDb
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"The Art of Buster Keaton" [1995] includes ten features & 20 shorts [plus bonus goodies on DVD set] Kino Video b&w DVD box set [11/2001] 11 disks for $179.96 Volume 1 = 8 films on 3 tapes: Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2001] for $52.95 Volume 2 = 12 films on 4 tapes: Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2001] for $69.95 Volume 3 = 10 films on 3 tapes: Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2001] for $52.95 credits from IMDb |
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