Interview conducted by George Pratt.
Photo by Apeda Studio, courtesy Stills, Posters, and Paper Collections, George Eastman Museum.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:00 Early Life – Family and performing Vaudeville
00:03:30 Early Career – Meeting Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and start in pictures
00:09:34 Early Career -- THE GARAGE (1920)
00:11:05 Early Career – Buster Keaton Productions and distribution with Metro
00:18:30 Early Career – Pivot from shorts to features, OUR HOSPITALITY (1923), THE NAVIGATOR (1924) and THE GENERAL (1926)
00:24:43 Early Career – Short films with Edward F. Cline: HARD LUCK (1921), THE BOAT (1921), THE PLAYHOUSE (1921)
00:32:10 Early Career – THE FROZEN NORTH (1922), THE ELECTRIC HOUSE (1922)
00:39:20 Early Life – Movie-going experiences at vaudeville shows, BIRTH OF A NATION (1915) and Mack Sennett productions
00:42:00 Early Career – THREE AGES (1923), SHERLOCK JR. (1924) and trick photography
00:54:10 Career – SEVEN CHANCES (1925), GO WEST (1925)
00:59:30 Career – THE GENERAL (1926)
01:05:00 Career – COLLEGE (1927)
01:07:00 Career – STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (1928)
01:09:35 Career – THE CAMERAMAN (1928)
01:17:00 Career – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract, working with director Edward Sedgwick
01:22:19 Late Career – LIMELIGHT (1952)
01:31:45 Reflections – Favorite films from career
The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19.
Generous support for the introductions provided by Art Bridges, and made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES.
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