As Buster Keaton told an interviewer in 1965, "When I'm working alone, the cameraman, the prop man, the electrician, these are my eyes out there.... They knew what they were talking about". Drawn from film trade magazines, newspapers, interviews and public records, this book tells the previously unpublished stories of the behind-the-scenes crew who worked on Keaton's silent films - like Elgin Lessley, who went from department store clerk to chief cameraman, and Fred Gabourie, who served as an army private in the Spanish American War before he became Keaton's technical director.
"I'd ask, 'Did that work the way I wanted it to?' and they'd say yes or no", Keaton said of his crew. He couldn't have made his films without them.
- ISBN:
- 9780786496839
- 9780786496839
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Category:
- Film production: technical & background skills
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
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14-11-2014
- Publisher:
- McFarland & Co Inc
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x16mm
- Weight:
- 0.43kg
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