Some of Buster Keaton's most amazing stunts

[@donmchoull]

For more amazing silent comedy stunts, check out my Harold Lloyd video kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKLdiKiohapjZ7s

[@brianbannon6746]

It's greatly enhanced by the ambient music.

[@eduardodoradodareyma9374]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS MOVIE......IT'S SO COOL.

[@blackrebelradio9879]

Oh my Lord no she special.

[@MAESTRAN]

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[@Nacho-Mamma]

Thank you for including Harold Lloyd! He was underrated and underappreciated, but extremely talented. He could do everything Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton could do; usually did it first, and did it flawlessly! He was my favorite out of the three.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

To impress Harry Houdini and inspire Jackie Chan, you have to be a legend.

[@SkeligMichael]

Buster Keaton, the man, who never laughed.

[@ИгорьБабенко-р4в]

Во каскадер! Всем каскадерам, каскадер!

[@mlghitler251]

the Houdini story is a fabrication although the story is true it wasn't Houdini

[@nevinsmagoo9132]

@@SkeligMichael sad like and Cursed like curly Howard

[@nevinsmagoo9132]

@@SkeligMichael or smiled

[@lucy9698]

The fact that all of these things used to be done in real time just makes it even more amazing. Incredibly dangerous work executed so perfectly and with style.... what a legend.

[@jimmycricketlopez2746]

Thanks Lucy. You must be pro stunt person yourself I imagine ಠ︵ಠ

[@iamincrediblystupidbut4364]

@@jimmycricketlopez2746 do you play cricket 😂

[@lucy9698]

@@jimmycricketlopez2746 ???????

[@garryiglesias4074]

@@jimmycricketlopez2746 What are you painfully trying to say ? Because until now you just wrote random words and look stoopid.

[@adm8995]

@@iamincrediblystupidbut4364 fyi it’s the second most popular sport next to football (soccer)

[@SuperSaiyan-1000]

He is almost like an animated character. Just unbelievable.

[@donyoung7874]

Except for his face.

[@Coffeehouse_Latte]

Shame he stopped the cartoonish gags he did in his early career.

[@sturmovik5448]

Well 5:00 just as good as invented a Roadrunner gag

[@georgeplagianos6487]

@@donyoung7874 you're right my father said he had a paralysis in his face. So he could never laugh at his own skits

[@Agostoic]

That's part of the whole point in these early silent movies. They needed to exagerate their body language in order to convey the acting, hence the cartoonish look of it.

[@ThunderPants13]

The fact that Buster Keaton survived into old age is nothing short of miraculous.

[@EliasWolf77]

Crazy how the best most real stunts in cinema history is from comedies and not action films lol

[@mongoliansummer3599]

Living without fear either kills you early or makes you strong enough for a long life.

[@bastlake]

Some of this stuff is literally 100 years old and I still can't figure how they did it. Simply amazing.

[@chrismofer]

the trick is usually that they actually did it for real.

[@nickbillups3151]

Buster Keaton was a legend. A time in Hollywood before the stuntman.

[@Immortal_BP]

@@chrismofer no hes talking about things like at 4:55

[@piotrpan7862]

@@Immortal_BP that man was at horisontal position before Keatons jump. After that he stood vertically

[@kkb3091]

@@piotrpan7862 Right.

[@HuwDouglasEvans]

If you're not amazed by his stunts, you need to watch them again. Astounding.

[@SecretPesch]

I would love to watch the making off of his movies

[@cycleSCUBA]

I am amazed and I have to watch it again !

[@suesmith5987]

Now that's real Entertainment.

[@TheSynthnut]

@Rare Color Films Jeez, lay off already, how many times do we need to hear this comment FFS?

[@clitoralrosary9474]

They're good but the first one on the building is fake.

[@JanMike9]

Keaton risked his life in every scene of every film; that he survived all these stunts is miraculous.

[@Medietos]

Was he not especially trained to master such stunts? It looks amazing, but him risking his life for real doesn't sound right. Was he tired of living, very conscientious wanting to do the best job, or what?

[@blacklabel130]

@@Medietos is he the inspiration of jackie chan?

[@TheLakabanzaichrg]

Unlike him, Jackie Chan is a real buster!

[@therandomrobert1842]

@@Medietos to put your ALL into something that’s something this man and only few can claim

[@michaeldaigle7207]

@@user-if1de8pt2j CGI? Do you know when these films were made? Buster Keaton did a few stunts involving *camera tricks* but most of his stuff is very very real. CGI wasn't used in movies until Keaton was in his 60's. Well after he did his stunts, and only a few years before his death.

[@RochelleHasTooManyHobbies]

He verbally mentions it in this video, but Buster Keaton started practicing physical comedy stunts at around 4 years old. His family was part of a vaudeville act they co-owned with Houdini, and his dad (as part of the act, with no real malice and not a single recollected injury from Keaton himself) would throw him at walls, into the orchestra, off the stage, etc. He credits that very early training with his success, but his family BARELY got away with it in the 1890s (his father was actually arrested multiple times for abuse after the audience saw the show, which Keaton had always fully rejected, asserting very firmly it was all for the act).

[@Noasphere]

Risking your son for the act is not okay. No matter what.

[@bibi_999]

@@Noasphere I think the damage has already been done lol

[@philpyung4831]

​@@Noaspherepressure makes diamonds. Being weak and lazy is not the lifestyle of all humans throughout history

[@spiderjerusalem8505]

​@@philpyung4831, it is the inevitable future though.

[@Locke42485]

@@Noasphere Today's youth is so coddled and entitled and weak, and it's ruining society.

[@Grapefruit5000]

Just by looking at this 5 min of clips he's the greatest stuntman of all time.

[@RaikenXion]

He truly is there should be a statue of this man it feels like Buster Keaton has not been given the proper recognition for his great achievements.

[@charlesel5983]

is there any movie about his life story,

[@condor237]

@@charlesel5983 Pulling yourself into a moving trolley was insane, best stuntman

[@Dunce...]

Harold Lloyd too

[@madpriest7822]

@@charlesel5983 no but now Ramek is playing him

[@ak2nda695]

There's not an actor today that could do these stunts. Not physically, mentally and most of all legally.

[@vadapallichaitu8799]

Tom cruise

[@TheFirstBubbaBong]

@@LincolnVOS drive a car

[@2552Zeus]

Jackie Chan destroys him dude

[@astroboirap]

Jackie chan

[@VancouverCanucksRock]

@@LincolnVOS Hopefully, calling those born Males/Females "Trans".

[@TheStockwell]

0:55 As historian David MacLeod explains, "He grabbed the water spout, it slowly came down and the force of the water knocked him down on to the railway line. In the film he got up and ran away, but he said for about two or three weeks afterwards he was getting these terrible headaches”. Remarkably, unbeknownst to the actor, Keaton had broken his neck and only noticed the injury 30 years later when the doctor performed an X-ray and revealed the shocking news.

[@eligebrown8998]

Thats nuts. Love learning this stuff

[@larryparis925]

Whoa…

[@SporkSlayer]

I didn't know he broke his neck, but I did know that he broke his arm at 3:35 and somehow managed to stay in character.

[@novalone3211]

I went to school with a torn ACL without knowing but this is a different level 🤯

[@marsjokes]

As they say, "'tis but a flesh wound."

[@Sniperboy5551]

Easily one of the most legendary actors to ever exist. It’s a shame that so many modern people don’t understand what it took to do what he did way back when. He will always be a legend.

[@mechanomics2649]

Who says no one understands? Who says they don't understand and don't just think it's a bad idea? The guy broke bones and could have gotten killed. Those things are bad, actually.

[@odog3254]

​@@mechanomics2649 coward

[@ajaymsp]

Buster Keaton Broke the internet before there was internet.

[@thehamburglar9mm]

Maybe he delayed its creation by decades? Woah.

[@mathewhale3581]

The internet... Is that still a thing?

[@TOGGGAA1]

Only idiots born after 95' say idiotic things like "break the internet"

[@borbors]

@@TOGGGAA1 ok boomer

[@Lenoh]

Right after he broke his 856th bone :P

[@aurona]

The stunt on the front of the train still makes me tense up even after seeing it hundreds of times. Utter genius.

[@xXxfandehalflifexXx]

I saw a lot of videos of people in pieces below a train , that scene really puts me tense

[@roydamanna]

He knew how to put his feet on the wood. so that he would slide on the train.. and his feet would not get under it.. :)

[@eligebrown8998]

Me to cause even at that slow speed you would still get smashed

[@jayryan7473]

They said at least two stunt men prior to him actually did get mangled under the train and one of them lost their life.

[@robd1329]

You can tell it was real but must have taken steel balls to do it

[@umakantachhatria7063]

Without CGI etc, his stunts and effects seems flawless and amazing even today

[@JunkMan13013]

Thats because 98% of them are flawless, the other 2% are happy little accidents.

[@BeingRomans829ed]

Gary Matthews And every little tree needs a little friend.

[@PaPaPOVEY]

Pure talent

[@raywings666]

Better than today

[@danhill9952]

Perfectly thought out, perfectly timed. No rehearsal. Do or die.

[@PCG2022]

The waterfall clip was absolutely amazing!! Never seen this before. What a legend!!

[@theposthumanpodcast]

Me neither.. Its absolutely bonkers.. I mean all of it is.. 😂😂

[@justingood1443]

@Enthusiastic Aizawa there’s a cut and the girl he saves is a fake doll. Yes he really did the stunt. No she wasn’t really going to fall

[@101Volts]

@@justingood1443 Two cuts. It cuts to the doll floating downstream, then it cuts after he's caught the doll. You'll see that the doll doesn't move on its own, but the real woman does.

[@carlsagan3065]

​@@justingood1443the rope still injured his back. Shits wayyyyy harder than it looks.

[@smittysmeee]

I cannot believe how easy he makes these stunts look. Unreal. I remember watching him as a kid, honestly thinking he was just another cartoon. Watching him now is incredible.

[@franl155]

Something I read years ago: If the audience can see how hard you're working, you're not working hard enough.

[@user-kt6fp8me6h]

Wait a second...these stunts were F'n real??? That's insane!!! Obviously this was way before my time and I've heard the name Buster Keaton thrown around my entire life but this is the first time I've seen anything from him....I'm literally dumbfounded by this, one of the most impressive things I've ever seen.

[@PauloPereira-jj4jv]

They're REAL. Carefully made, but real. A true legend.

[@ninjavigilante5311]

He did all his crazy stunts when his wife left him and didn't care about life.. he was insane!

[@KevyNova]

You should definitely watch some of his movies. Here’s the greatest physical comedian of all time.

[@ronmartin4212]

Nice to know Buster is appreciated in the 2020's.Hed be thrilled!!!!

[@KevyNova]

@@ronmartin4212 right? He was making movies 100 years ago that people still watch and enjoy. I think he’d be very proud to know that.

[@johnnydollar579]

The sheer athleticism of this man's stunts is just awe inspiring.

[@mnb4414]

Also seemed to have some of the best luck of all time

[@Magneticlaw]

He's not a huge guy, and wrestling a railroad tie - ever tried that? - I don't recommend it. 💪

[@Pacckkaa]

@Reee Flex except for the risk factor is 100% and modern stuntmen have millions of ways to make things safer even those 30ft drops you want to scoff at.

[@impact0r]

@@Magneticlaw You really think that was real wood?

[@the4tierbridge]

@@impact0r It was. We know because that tie still exists (forgot where, some Railroad Museum) The thing he hit it with was a heavy metal iron though.

[@tombstone4986]

I can't imagine all the small injuries he sustained over the years. That boy was tougher than a bucket of nails!

[@leer.watson4673]

42 years old. Right now (literally) is first time I’m hearing about this man and his work. All because it appeared on my KZbin feed. Makes me wonder how many other extraordinary people or events are out there….

[@michaeldaigle7207]

John Stapp comes to mind. A name most know but probably know little about is Alfred Nobel. Also check out some famous physicists, such as Richard Feynman, Robert Oppenheimer, or Werner Heisenberg. Another couple favorite scientists are Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell. There are so many good documentaries and short videos about all kinds of extraordinary people on youtube.

[@ex-scientia4234]

Sounds like you’ve had a very sheltered existence to date.

[@mikegordon8178]

Check out the Ross Sisters, Potato Salad

[@calebjaymes9710]

Alagash 4...

[@voornaam3191]

Not a stuntman, but a steeple jack. He repaired huge factory chimneys. He repaired things like the rooster on top of a church tower. BBC discovered this remarkable man. Check Fred Dibnah climbing chimneys.

[@niknitro8751]

This guy was just insane. The scene with the Train and water tower is so crazy. The high pressure burst of water actually broke his neck, but this guy just finished the scene despite the pain and only realised he had a broken neck a full 10 years later.

[@robovac3557]

Methinks a broken neck not as serious as you're tryna make out then.

[@niknitro8751]

@@robovac3557 it very much depends, if the nerves running through the vertebrates get pinched or broken. obviously it was a "lucky" case with him otherwise he'd died or been paralized.

[@MsHSpring]

Whoa!

[@FightingTorque411]

​​@@robovac3557 Football (soccer) goalkeeper Bert Trautmann fractured his neck in a diving tackle during the 1956 FA Cup final. He not only didn't realise the seriousness of the injury, but played the remaining 17 minutes of the game, collected his winner's medal with his teammates, and only had it diagnosed by a doctor three days later because his head was "noticeably crooked"!

[@keithm9337]

@@niknitro8751 I was in a head on collision five years ago and the air bag deployment caused two cracked vertibre in my neck. I still cannot turn my head to the left as far as I used to and my left hand is partially numb all the time. I still have some pain, but I am not dead or paralyzed. I still get around as well as I used to. Perhaps Buster didn't actually break his neck, just cracked some vertibre.

[@swayjaayy5495]

How he did some of these is nothing short of amazing. No cgi and elaborate harnesses and wires for the most part. A true G.O.A.T

[@steveeddy6876]

Yeeeeeeeessssss!

[@The_InfantMalePollockFrancis]

Well, there were certainly wires and harnesses. I think VFX was particularly clever then and ironically more subtle than nowadays.

[@The_InfantMalePollockFrancis]

@@LeoMastroTV Who are you talking about?

[@ezioaugustus2621]

@@LeoMastroTV calm down

[@comradecameron3726]

@@LeoMastroTV silence.

[@williamjameslehy1341]

Keaton was one of the greatest performers to ever live. Without speaking a single word he made timeless comedy that can make anyone, from anywhere, born in any year laugh until it hurts.

[@neuvocastezero1838]

This guy is almost certainly one of Jackie Chan's influences.

[@untitled3426]

Yeah, he was for sure. You should watch the Every Frame a Painting videos on Keaton and Chan he mentions his influence in those videos.

[@robertcameronjones]

The shot where he was straddling the two cars was used by JC VanDamme (impressively, I might add) in a Truck commercial.

[@djamelbouch3670]

Do not compare the legendary Keaton to a clown?

[@dava_arvarabi]

@@djamelbouch3670 eh?

[@GrahamMasters87]

Was looking for this comment, even the way he steps after an "accident" that "comedic stomp"

[@cycleSCUBA]

It's not 'just' the jaw-dropping stunts but that facial expression and the body movements to enhance the effect yet more. A Genius. He should be awarded a posthumous Oscar for such a significant contribution to the action film.

[@tommihail2178]

Agree totally..and Buster had real bruises to prove he did the stunts no stuntmen used..I'm surprised he never ended up in a morgue but he did it for us and we are forever grateful..Watching Buster and Chaplin together in "Limelight" is so memorable..

[@Romchikthelemon]

He doesn't need an oscar. He is a legend.

[@steveeddy6876]

Yeeeeeeeessssss!

[@lindacaldwell6251]

HE. IS. LEGEND......

[@lindacaldwell6251]

He should STILL BE HONORED FOR HIS INCREDIBLE INDURANCE, strength, talent and unending amount of gumption!!!! He was like a machine! Once he set his mind to something he didn't quit until he accomplished it. His physical endurance was unrivaled......how many people do you know can jump over a standing horse??? Anyone??? How about a 5ft tall hedge?? 🤔 The man was unreal!

[@Discrimination_is_not_a_right]

"The average mind of the motion picture audience is 12 years old." Still true.

[@dumpsterstu4474]

so true I won't go see a flic these days because they're as fake and asleep as the people watching them. Got this kid on the bus sometimes he will explain them to me. I barely listen though as I'm wondering what it's like to be so asleep.

[@Discrimination_is_not_a_right]

+Stu Dumpster: Dude, don't tell us you thought Hollywood is real. It's all fake. Always has been. It's Hollywood. They tell us stories.

[@ElwoodPDowd-nz2si]

Discrimination is not a right. Nuh uuuh

[@Discrimination_is_not_a_right]

lol

[@momiaw]

Discrimination is not a right, but you think arrogance is.

[@paulhomsy2751]

The cleaning of the glass window must have been an inspiration to Marcel Marceau. Buster Keaton was absolutely phenomenal !!! His stunts were death defying and executed to perfection. He was superbly fit, flexible and strong with an incredible sense of timing and guts like very few had or will ever have. Just a rare individual who performed some of the most dangerous stunts as if they were business as usual.

[@101Volts]

The glass window thing was (probably) done by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle first, though - Roscoe did do it though I don't know when, but I can't think of an earlier silent film comedy star than Roscoe. ... Also, both Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin were in films of Roscoe Arbuckle's.

[@jonathanmosher72]

That train scene. If he fell or even put his foot on the ground it would have torn his leg off at the least.

[@THE-WAY_THE-TRUTH_THE-LIFE.]

He did put his foot down for a second at 2:14

[@franknbeanz147]

the timing on taking out that other board too miss he's screwed, one of my favorite scenes

[@Sam-vk8xd]

Absolutely amazing. His timing was impeccable. And he kept a stone face through it all. Truly a legend.

[@kampfmuffins5507]

He actually broke his neck when the water pushed him down, but he Didnt noticed until years later or something like that

[@nerfherder4284]

That whole movie is great!

[@AAvfx]

*Buster had 1000 souls! Nowadays people use special effects. Even a brave stunt double wouldn't dare to pull this off!* 🤯🤯🤯

[@jerrygiarratana9462]

AA VFX word👀👀👀

[@colbyburgesd9258]

Jackie Chan would like a word

[@ಠ_ಠ-ಥ7ಭ]

You can't possibly think this is real

[@BrooklynBalla]

Buster used special effects too.Some of his stunts were 100% real but most were just camera tricks and special effects.

[@anthonyjudd5347]

@@ಠ_ಠ-ಥ7ಭ Yea they're real. They didn't have CGI a hundred years ago, they just did the stunt.

[@jokidd4005]

Buster was a man before his time!

[@99bits46]

this man invented parkour 100 years ago

[@wasiftajwar149]

Nooe he was the man who designed modern day cinematography

[@MrJackandEmily]

He was a man while he was alive also.

[@MeesterVegas]

Is he a woman now?

[@mariamartinez-dy4zp]

❤😃.

[@johnshields6852]

This guy was amazing, most stunts wouldn't even be thought of today, nevermind done.

[@davefieramosca6974]

These days you can replicate these stunts with CGI. Back then you did them with GUTS. Amazing

[@easygoing2479]

That's why this phony era of CGI is so uninspiring. It's everywhere, overused. Old films like this invoke such an immediate attachment with the viewer.

[@tiko4621]

@@easygoing2479 were actually in kind of a “practical effects renaissance” in terms of Hollywood movie making. There’s a bunch of directors right now moving to do actual stunts. If you’d said this a 5-15 years ago you’d be right

[@KerrCreatives]

I don’t think you can replicate these with cgi so much as mimic them. Replicate is a strong word for the things he did.

[@Greatsword585]

Oh and don't forget the many broken bones and dead stuntmen :)

[@GoldenGameDev]

@@easygoing2479 I mean, Keaton's stunts are fucking insanity. You couldn't do them now adays because they are waaay too dangerous. Even Keaton broke bones constantly in his stunts, and even broke his neck at one point (the water tower stunt). Its a huge controversy to let a stunt actor die or break his neck, so for most film makers its seriously not worth the risk (and probably not legal).

[@jeffsanders1609]

In his final days he was restless. Despite dying of cancer he’s pace his hospital room and desired to go home. He even sat at a table playing cards with fiends the day before he died

[@paradiddleday]

Jeff Sanders Hope that didn’t imply his final destination 😰

[@malcolmabram2957]

He did not know he had lung cancer. He thought it was bad pneumonia.

[@funkingcustoms2408]

@@malcolmabram2957 Wow 😮😮😮 that would be horrible!

[@추민찬]

U mean friends, right?

[@ruicorreia7882]

When he was on his last moments, someone near his bed asks to check his feet to see if he had died, claiming that the feet become cold after a person dies... and his last words were: -"Joan of Arc's feet didn't."

[@catfeline1530]

That stunt on the train grill was extremely dangerous, one slipped foot and he would have been caught under the grill and brutally killed. These are fun to watch, but he did stuff that was insane.

[@johno1544]

Oh god yes those grills they called "cow catchers" although they should have been called cow exploders because that's what they did at any decent speed. So so dangerous.

[@brianchadwell2]

How about that waterfall stunt?

[@nsahandler]

@@brianchadwell2 the waterfall stunt was insane

[@the4tierbridge]

@@johno1544 Actually, he was standing on the “headstocks” which on certain loco’s, connect to the cowcatcher.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

@@johno1544 They really were originally called "couch catchers" because back then when you wanted to get rid of an old couch, the custom was to place it on the train tracks where the next train would get rid of it for you by blasting it into kindling wood and stuffing. Very convenient for everyone. The term, due to laziness on the part of most people became cow catchers but that is not really true.

[@AllenHanPR]

Jackie Chan said Buster Keaton was his role model. Ironically Keaton was an American who inspired him to be a stuntman, and then years later he brings the art of stunts to American cinema. Full circle basically.

[@cherokeeconcrete1986]

When Jackie Chan said he dedicates his Work to Buster Keaton, I felt that RIP to the Greatest Man of Cinema Entertainment Bravo👏🏽👏🏽

[@joshuawebb5891]

He broke his neck In the clip where the water spout opened up above him . He passed it off as a headache and kept filming , and he didn't reliaze he broke his neck until long after at the doctors .

[@0vomit0]

Did he die afterwards?

[@joshuawebb5891]

@@0vomit0 No he didn't pass away until he was 70 I think . He only noticed he fractured his neck years later when his doctor noticed the bones in his neck were fused in a weird way . He said the water spout scene was the only thing that he thought could have done it. The water pressure slammed him into the metal rail with enough force to fracture a bone in his neck . He finished the scene , but complained of a headache for days after , and didn't think any thing of it .

[@societydisorder3864]

@@joshuawebb5891 I just told someone about a fracture I had and they said well technically it's broken. I'm not a doctor so which is it

[@joshuawebb5891]

@@societydisorder3864 oh wow , what was it ?

[@societydisorder3864]

@@joshuawebb5891 big toe

[@niqpere]

Dude was a genius. Movie makers now a days can't do half the things he pulled off.

[@humanistwriting5477]

Because directors back then tried and failed over and over At the expense of hundreds of lives.

[@atrain3441]

bro use your head. Hundreds of actors died trying to do what this guy did. That's why Hollywood uses CGI instead of real stuff

[@JrKdM]

they could pull it off sadly people died cause they are trash and can never compare to him. Good Riddance

[@SourLayedBack]

@@JrKdM nice bait

[@JrKdM]

@@SourLayedBack i dont know what that means

[@RaikenXion]

2:28 Now i'm sorry but how the literal fuck did he do that!? If he was off in any way or didn't catch that wood block right, it could have caused that train to derail and he could have been killed badly. Guy is a absolute, fearless legend, even Jackie Chan wouldnt do some of the stuff this guy did.

[@justliam2768]

I never took the time to fully appreciate this man's ingenuity. I have some serious viewing to catch up on!

[@tyso5146]

Just Liam You and me both!

[@mak00ileven]

Just Liam I agree

[@trevgoodwin7900]

I've just started watching him and i'm 69 years and never knew what a genius he was.

[@JetMags]

me too

[@jacobmcandles1745]

Don’t forget Harold Loyd. Another great stuntman.

[@rogercollins2653]

He was a one shot. Just imagine if the director or film guy says we ran out of film. Just imagine what we all would have lost. A pure genius at play.

[@johnsrabe]

He was a professional with a professional crew. They always made sure they had enough film in the camera.

[@garymcaleer6112]

The one true master of film.

[@Realmasterorder]

Master of physical comedy and stunts indeed huge respect to him and Harold Loyd But the all time master of film Has to go to Chaplin,because did physical comedy/drama and also directed,writen,produced, composed music etc That is just unreal so i will go with Charlie Chaplind

[@lazaruslorenzo4945]

Buster Keaton also wrote and directed many of his films. The general is just one example. The things he did were extraordinary and many have not been done since. I have a lot of respect for Chaplin as well. They were both revolutionaries. Each were great in their own ways.

[@ThisisBrownfield]

Keaton not only did stunts lol, he exploited the cinematographic space, he made, contrary to Chaplin who used drama to make masterpiece, burlesque a major art, he's as good if not better

[@mollyr.goates8097]

@@Realmasterorder Chaplin used a stunt double though.

[@Realmasterorder]

@@mollyr.goates8097 Only in certain dangerous scenes but most of the physical things he did himself but as i said above he did a lot more than that he was a one man Movie making Crew and a prefectionistic genius

[@rebus_x5313]

Considering how the majority of stunt actors usually end up after a couple of years or so, I highly suspect that this man had an extremely rare ability to precisely foresee if he survives the trick or not, or - what exactly will happen the next second and what to do. Someone may call that "luck", if they will, but I mean something else. Besides a truly excellent physical shape and perfect body control, of course. Amazing.

[@ThanatosSD]

When I was young he was my favourite actor, I remember laughing hard to his movies. Now I realize how many times put in risk his health only to entertain us. He was amazing.

[@Gameboy-Unboxings]

Only to entertain us? You realize he made money from it right?

[@owneraccount4334]

Yea , that's stupidity. Nobody to be admired

[@ThanatosSD]

@@owneraccount4334 Account owned...

[@owneraccount4334]

@@ThanatosSD yea by Me

[@arnoldmonge1708]

@@owneraccount4334 your subjective oppinion is somehow objectively wrong. congrats!

[@Peter-eu7wp]

Buster Keaton was a genius, all of his stunts being real action, just next level.

[@daywalker3735]

God imagine if he was here for modern cinema.....a movie with him and Jackie Chan

[@lazymuthafkr9921]

Too much adrenalin for the audience bro

[@YourPalHDee]

Yeah, shame modern cinema is pathetic actors using CGI to appear talented.

[@spideyfanboi7800]

@@YourPalHDee I wish modern cinema would take more risks for the Movies but instead they play it safe for the money. Which are the movies people see beacuse they are popular. People aren't going to see indie films unless it's popular which is sad since that indie film is a passion project for the director and lots of those indie films get put under the radar.

[@YourPalHDee]

@@spideyfanboi7800 it's more than just money now. Hollywood is as much a machine of propaganda as most mainstream media. It's used to sell ideas to the public.

[@spideyfanboi7800]

@@YourPalHDee yeah I was just thinking more about studio interference. It's pretty sad what has happened to cinema now well at least the main stream stuff

[@tolyan_psix3354]

Непревзойдённый и один из величайших людей на планете!Пожалуй,из-за невероятных трюков его фильмы сейчас вышли бы на очень высокий уровень!

[@busterkeatonvk]

А они и сейчас отлично смотрятся, даже если человек до этого немое кино не смотрел)

[@ShadowBrocker]

Величайшие люди это учёные, а не прыгуны из окон . Мозги включи

[@busterkeatonvk]

@@ShadowBrocker ну, он был не просто "прыгуном из окон", а режиссером, опередившим и во многом определившим облик современного развлекательного кино

[@robjontay5052]

The last scene took an amazing amount of planning and practice. In every scene Buster could have been killed or badly injured. Instead he just got back up.....Incredible performer....

[@ahnraemenkhera7451]

Rob Jontay Incredible nerve! No one else like him.

[@b3j8]

Actually if you delve into his career, he was injured many times! Broken ribs, dislocated shoulder, even cracked a vertebrae in his neck just to name afew. Same for Chaplain and Harold Loyd.

[@powerpopaholic876]

b3j8 As a fan of silent films, I got to say I’m a little curious. Are there any books on how he did the stunts, that sort of thing?

[@ahnraemenkhera7451]

Phil Bullen Don’t know of any still in print, but I’ll bet wherever there are schools that offer classes in film, there are bookstores that can order you some.

[@b3j8]

@@powerpopaholic876 Phil I read about this era in general many(MANY) yrs ago. I don't now recall what the name of that book was. It was not just about Keaton, but the Era in general. You might try some of the reading suggested on the Wiki site for him if you haven't already. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton

[@Gallivanter00]

The car falling apart gets me every time! :)

[@hameedamahsud6907]

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[@ddraig1957]

Special effects have been around since the birth of cinema,but a lot of the stunts that Keaton did were very real and very dangerous.Amazing but scary.

[@samfrito]

His dumbstruck look is just as incredible as the stunts themselves. No look of exertion in most cases. These shorts have such a timelessness.

[@plvmbvm513]

Technically if it was done with pyrotechnics, etc. it would be called practical effects wouldn't it

[@ArikCool]

This video was century ago and still the camera quality way way better than today's security footage or UFO videos

[@BruceLee-zd9bw]

Buster keaton was a true legend. Total respect to him. R.I.P.🙏✊

[@fademaster3300]

3:30 are you kidding me?? one mistaken calculation and he is dead. !! damn.

[@TheThatoneguy12121]

I legit thought there was glass he was cleaning. That was smooth as hell.

[@Prophecynut]

No pun intended?

[@AmiraSmyrna]

He had the vision long before youtube put everyone on the screen with these stunts. Incredible thanks for posting!

[@paprika8795]

they cant even make a fight scene without ridiculous cuts now. all hail keaton and jackie chan.

[@CodPast]

Yes Michael Keaton

[@marhen4497]

You're watching the wrong movies

[@Nine-Signs]

Liam neeson fight scenes are terrible for epileptics due to the editor frantically trying to make an irish pensioner look like a ninja.

[@stradegy3338]

@Ish Moore too much tommy sauce involved..makes me wanna spew. And the cringy af bleatings when they're fighting, ridiculous

[@bbbildhuu]

@Ish Moore but Asian action movies are worse...

[@Pradip..]

I am 21, and never heard of him Thanks to yt for recommending this video :)

[@JohnJohn-cu7nk]

Look up Harold loyd and Charlie Chaplin as qell

[@cashc2199]

I am 38 , and never heard of him.

[@Zizie_sc]

I’m glad they listed the sources. I have a watchlist for Christmas now haha

[@howey935]

They used to play all his movies during the summer holidays here in the U.K. during the 70s and 80s along with Harold loyd Charlie Chaplin Laurel and hardy and a few others I don’t remember

[@jaakbonenstaak8041]

i'm 14 and have never heard of him either! weird right?!

[@rossapolis]

1:12 that stunt broke his neck. The water came out so hard that it slammed him into the tracks. It wasn't until years later that he discovered that he had fractured his neck. I think it was discovered during a medical exam.

[@MFPhoto1]

True!

[@henryglarsson2635]

Years later but they could pinpoint the exact stunt that caused it? Nah mate

[@rossapolis]

Well maybe not years, but it was at least a few months. I think I saw it mentioned in a documentary about his life.

[@tedpeterson1156]

rossapolis I wondered about that, looks brutal

[@goobers143]

rossapolis How can any trust you word after you just discredited what you said?

[@mookyyzed2216]

His stunt work is not only ahead of his time, but ours as well.

[@nathanhiggins1438]

Those walls coming down around him, you've got to have kahones.

[@yungmentalproblems]

There would be a marked spot to stand in so not really much danger

[@nathanhiggins1438]

@@yungmentalproblems you mean he's not just guessing!? Of course there's a mark, I'd still flinch i bet.

[@Ugh800]

Kahones? Did you mean "cojones" = spanish for balls?

[@nathanhiggins1438]

@@Ugh800 sure

[@shinji5217]

@@yungmentalproblems do it then smart-ass, *he was the first* to do that, come up with something with that high of a stake, try it and film it

[@Squicx]

Even today his movies are absolutely iconic. For something over 100 years old, his work was ahead of his time

[@Wladimir-65]

А ведь в то время не было компьютерной графики. Это же какой талантище у человека!

[@yuriystruykin3849]

Это люди из других инопланетных цивилизаций

[@Wladimir-65]

@@yuriystruykin3849 похоже что так. Трудно не согласиться.

[@ВладимирСубботин-ц3р]

​@@yuriystruykin3849 Просто космос, не иначе...

[@ТоксичныйГеймер-п8ш]

За всем этим стоят сломанные жизни людей. Многие актеры которые исполняли трюки лично, Фрейзер, Форд тот же, получали переломы позвоночника и операции.

[@user-km2zq5dp4e]

Там вместе с людьми забавлялись боги в человеческом облике, это как круги на полях, явления одного порядка

[@DirtiestDMusic]

The stunt at 2:25 looks like a video game quicktime event made real.

[@grrr.9998]

The first clip where he jumps from building to building where he fell was a stunt gone wrong. It resulted in him falling from the building. He took 3 days to recover then included the fall in the movie and edited it together with another stunt that saw him going through the window. He was a genius but made a massive error based on the advice of his lawyer and signed for MGM. MGM basically took away Keaton's creative control over his work, replaced Buster's own technicians with their own and eventually MGM sacked him for not doing a degrading promotional ad for a movie.

[@no_peace]

I wondered how they did that, it didn't seem possible to do it safely without CGI

[@CanalPSG]

@@no_peace oh, safety is such an overrated concept....

[@M0butu]

@@no_peace Workplace safety wasn't invented back then. 😄 You remember that famous photo with the workers on a steel beam on top of the Empire State building?

[@albertvankrieg5548]

It's 2020 and I think these scenes are magical. I watched the whole video with a smile on my face.

[@WorthlessDeadEnd]

Not me. I was all like 😱

[@garichar]

I'm amazed. I was just thinking the stunts must have been jaw dropping for audiences back then.

[@gr8sword97]

It’s just spectacular to watch and listen to a guy from a completely different world, and be completely transfixed by it. This guy was born over a hundred years before I was. How the hell did he manage all that with the sort of technology he had? It’s just remarkable. One of the things that stands out to me is how normal he sounds. Lots of people from his time period had those goofy transatlantic accents, but he sounds like a normal gravelly old man.

[@spb7883]

Keaton famously said he broke every bone in his body. The stunt at 1:13 caused him to break his neck: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Jr.. But as daring and athletic as Keaton’s stunts remain, let’s not forget his creativity and intelligence as a filmmaker.

[@peanutbutter3578]

I've never seen someone throw themselves down a hill so impressively.. this dude is the inspiration behind the ovwrexagerated cartoons🤣

[@no_peace]

It's insane

[@swagg7109]

Have you not seen them people roll down the hill for that cheese. Some of them people are not far off haha

[@peanutbutter3578]

@@swagg7109 wait what bro?🤣🤣 care to share a link?

[@ElDuderinoh]

@@swagg7109 I’m not proud that I know what you’re talking about

[@JackIsMe1993]

@@peanutbutter3578 Here you go kzbin.info/www/bejne/nX_NZ2qhrLx1pbM

[@chrislex2838]

Did you know? Jackie Chan learns most of his tricks from Buster Keaton.

[@grendelum]

The years spent training for Peking opera were also a massive influence...

[@tenhirankei]

From watching his movies you mean. I doubt they had any actual contact.

[@marc-andrebrunet5386]

Min Tin COOL

[@scaparapadoobedoooo3170]

tenhirankei no shit, sherlock

[@Bruno-hd9qo]

I had an idea. Now confirmed.

[@joeomalley2835]

Buster Keaton was one of the best at his craft: stunts and comedic levels of genius.

[@Hadouken88]

A hundred years later and it's still astounding!

[@XrpAndy]

I don’t think people realize how amazing the clip at 2:23 was….. this was all improvised and he had one shot to do this…….. this was a hundred years ago. There were no second takes with a train. Either he nailed it right the first time or he ruined the shot and wasted the time of all the people filming and would try again later. Not to mention how dangerous it was. A true legend

[@Baneslayer]

How about the bravery of that girl that willingly goes over the falls and trusts him to catch her 3:06. 😲

[@corail53]

You mean he had to nail it right or possibly die. There was barely an industry then and not much in the way of crews here. So no ruined the shot and wasted the time of people filming. Even today mistakes happen and your not wasting anyone's time - you go until you get the shot or you scrap it and everyone gets paid regardless.

[@LJLearns]

@@Baneslayer that clip was fortunately a rag doll that went over the edge. I do believe the woman in the beginning was real. But I also just read an article about him saying this was a doll. Out of all the clips, I wanted this one to be as real as it seemed but not quite.

[@no_peace]

I couldn't figure out at first what it reminded me of...Angry birds lol

[@Meevious]

Well, there must have been a train in front to support the camera, so it was probably loaded with a whole lot of sleepers. =) It must have been laid onto the tracks by that forward train, moments before coming into view, because the train couldn't have passed through it. It certainly would have been a hell of a bother if it had actually derailed Buster's train though!

[@dandare6865]

Shame the stupid music gets in the way of hearing Buster.

[@karl3097]

@Bedrocker Don Yer givin' me an earache, bastard. Obviously silent films had music, but this is not a full silent movie, it's a compilation with Buster's commentary and a crappy techno music

[@marco7187]

Are you THAT stupid, mate??

[@chrishamilton2559]

@ it's literally Buster Keaton himself. But you know, boring. Amirite?

[@ricardolopes9563]

@@karl3097 next time do it your self. Let's see if it's better than this

[@SupermanNew52]

The music is Aquatic Ambience from Donkey Kong Country but remixed. The original song is great.

[@RaptorJesus.]

i'm almost shocked to find out he's dead! watching him in action makes it easy to believe he was invincible.

[@aki7162]

It's been more than 100 years since this

[@RaptorJesus.]

@@aki7162 i know, but vids like this make him seem immune to everything :P

[@asheer9114]

@@RaptorJesus. Sadly... no one is immune to the Grim Reaper once he put his target on you. ☠️

[@thatoneguy611]

I see this as the reason he died

[@holeefuk413]

@@RaptorJesus. you've been reading too many comic books

[@tavhoyle]

Wow! I'm shocked at how they even did these stunts safely in that era

[@marcowulliampopirers2216]

That's the neat part,they didn't

[@mrdawsonh]

Criteria for "safely" - still alive.

[@yoshidinono8095]

Things moved slower back then too.

[@kylehart8829]

​@@marcowulliampopirers2216A lot of the stuff in this video uses techniques from magic shows as well as stop-motion and clever editing. A lot of it is legit but also these stunts are very well planned out and not generally absurdly dangerous. Impressive physical feats and excellent performance, but the risks weren't that crazy. There are some like the train one that are genuinely very dangerous, but he did that with a ton of practice and planning and still left himself a decent margin for error. This is performance art, not just a crazy guy who doesn't care about his life. It undersells how good he is to pretend like he didn't have his own safety as a top priority.

[@marcowulliampopirers2216]

@@kylehart8829 even with those precautions they were still dangerous and unsafe by modern standards,i was just making a joke

[@FKfilmphotography]

A big influence on Jackie Chan. Amazing man.

[@danyalmehboob4180]

Ferhan Khan Photography jacje chain has world record for most stunts as an actor in movies

[@Kermit_T_Frog]

I'm pretty sure this is false information. Jackie Chan never heard of Keaton until late in life when somebody told him that he reminded him of him.

[@BlueSkyCrystals]

Kermit T. Frog That can’t be true. Some of Jackie’s stunts from his 80’s films were tributes to Keaton.

[@aniket8350]

Donald's Russian Lemonade Jacki chan

[@MichaelLantz]

He was also a big influence on British Comedian Benny Hill.When Benny Hill passed away in 1992 (He was living alone).When they search his house they found VCR tapes with Charlie Chaplin,Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton movies on them.Benny Hills friend Bob Monkhouse said in an interview that Benny Hill was a big fan of the Slapstick Comedies of the 1920's.

[@StephenBoyd21]

Pure genius. It’s amazing he survived some of those stunts. No CGI, back then.

[@steve2474]

Keaton-Chaplin-Lloyd- The three kings of silent comedy.

[@sharonw2475]

I would have placed Harold Lloyd second, of course everyone is second to Buster Keaton. he was and always will be the greatest of the silents and talkies.

[@tenderheart7530]

Sharon W 👌

[@АндрейИльин-д6ж]

Keaton-Chaplin-Lloyd-Rowen

[@pikeman80]

Throw Arbuckle in that group too.

[@chrisguy1790]

Also Harry Langdon

[@pandahsykes602]

We need stunt men and pictures like this again . We got Jackie Chan , but even he is running dry on Stunts in his old age .

[@gregoryl.levitre9759]

Nobody should risk their life unnecessarily like this for the amusement of strangers.

[@720069mf]

Buster Keaton- greatest stuntman ever...

[@VVK5W]

I've been in the rail industry for 20 years. To this day I don't know how he pulled off the stunt on the front of the locomotive. He and most of the general public have no idea how close he came to a slow, grueling and guaranteed death.

[@criticalmoss]

Yeah i work in rail too - the rail stunts scare the daylights out of me.

[@RemixedVoice]

I think those rail stunts were the most dangerous ones he ever did

[@MyLateralThawts]

If memory serves, I believe it was the scene where he was doused with water, during the filming of Sherlock Junior in 1924, while disembarking from the moving train that he actually broke his neck, but didn’t find out about it for (I think) some 30 years later, when his Doctor happened to take an X-ray long after his stunting days were over.

[@jorgepadilla9945]

No need to be in the rail industry to understand how dangerous that was...

[@ceejay0137]

I think Keaton's best railway stunt (from The General, but not in this video) is where he sits down on the connecting rod, and the other engineer drives the engine into the shed with him on it.

[@rmp7400]

Are you kidding? 😳 This man was not a comedian - he was a magician🎆 of the purest kind🏆. Had long heard of Buster Keaton, but thanks to you, am now aware of what the deserved fuss was all about!

[@Tovek]

Umm.. yes, he was a comedian and much more.

[@rmp7400]

@Juan Um...okay for some... However I have not laughed once at Anything have seen him do. Not amusing to me, at all. However...Mesmerizing? Yes. Very mesmerizing

[@architectinth]

The fact that he lived to be 70 tells you how well-thought out and performed his stunts were.

[@donyoung7874]

Buster Keaton is my favorite Silent Screen star. The physicality of his stunts are one thing but he was a technical innovator in film with a wild imagination. He had to devise a box with numerous doors to fit in front of the camera, in order to have multiple images of himself in "The Playhouse". Then there's the way he blurred reality by breaking dimensions with the film screen. Woody Allen used it in Purple Rose of Cairo decades later. I'm still trying to figure out how he appears to slither up to a window in a scene in "The General".

[@Nebulasmoke]

We'll never see another like him. He was brilliant, fearless and exceptionally gifted talent wise. He was a complete master of his craft from top to bottom. Lightyears ahead of his time.

[@YourPalHDee]

Jackie Chan continued his legacy for certain.

[@walkingtrails7776]

@Necramonium Who?

[@whyis45stillalive]

@@walkingtrails7776 No one. Don't worry you're not missing anything.

[@victaylor1]

@Necramonium a good stunt but also probably rigged with the best safety team also.

[@danhill9952]

@@whyis45stillalive Truth. Not a big Tom Cruise fan myself. IMO He's kind of a twit.

[@ni2says]

I have never seen stunts like this ever in my life before. This is just another level especially in the initial age of cinema. Respect to such a talent who inspired the heros of the modern age.

[@matthewdrexler188]

We only simulate feats like these now

[@comixproviderftw_02]

No wires, no cgi, just a camera, a man and his life on the line.

[@tdata545]

JESUS, how did people laugh at this and not just gawk at the sheer madness of him. That is putting a lot of faith in way too many variables. It's AMAZINGLY impressive. A lot of tight timing.

[@mwbwyatt]

there was no "behind the scenes" or knowing what was real and what was "movie magic" back then. chances are almost 100% of it was actually done, which boggles the mind, but when you hear about the injuries he actually sustained. nowadays the audience knows full well the risks most people have taken, and they know to suspend disbelief for the most part. wrestling was still real to people back then. i imagine that movies were in the same sort of category. also. silent movies had wonderful comedic music and sound effects. which played a big part in helping create the comedy/comedic timing of these stunts.

[@nom6758]

the thing is, they had music, atmosphere, and the knowledge of what they were going into wasnt killing anyone. With those its very easy to laugh at the intended joke rather than act brainlessly.

[@geoffreylogsdon162]

​@@mwbwyatt And nowadays we have complete tools like Tom Cruise saying he does his own 'stunts'. Yeah. I am sure a company insuring a multimillion dollar picture would allow that. The cost of Cruise's breakfast is probably equal to the entire budget of a Keaton two-reeler.

[@michaelbread5906]

Yep, music sets the tone of any film.

[@stunna1050]

I watched the Lucille Ball doc recently and learned that she did a lot of her training, acting and physical comedy from Buster Keaton. I was surprised but it makes a hell of a lot more sense looking at her performances and career.

[@MrJamberee]

This would have been better without the music. Hard to hear the narrative.

[@alexmijo]

maybe the one time I have disagreed with this sort of comment on a video

[@kellymitchell5073]

"Aqua" by Ryan Little, based off the underwater level from Donkey Kong Country. I could listen to it on an infinite loop.

[@NoliMeTangere1163]

@@kellymitchell5073That's exactly what I thought it was! I just sat there thinking: this is a sample off DK 1993 water-level.

[@Milan-db3uy]

Was it though? Didn't bother me too much.

[@buixrule]

I found it almost impossible to focus on the narration.

[@kaiza9184]

0:44 Can someone explain this to me ?! How ? Is this man indestructible ? 😲

[@BillyBronco73]

Buster Keaton was Marty Feldman's big hero. Feldman described Keaton's films as the most perfect thing he'd ever seen. Looking at this I can see what he means.

[@ВалерийМезенцев-ж1з]

И никакой компьютерной графики... Бастер Китон величайший комедийный актер.

[@ИванЧебан-ы3р]

А как же Чарли?

[@ВалерийМезенцев-ж1з]

@@ИванЧебан-ы3р и Чаплин тоже.

[@DimkaTV-gz4ij]

Ближе сказать каскадёр

[@ВалерийМезенцев-ж1з]

@@ИванЧебан-ы3р и Чарли тоже

[@neilsvonzeppelin250]

What do you mean ?

[@lindacaldwell9017]

amazing man.....

[@raymondherd4859]

My first day working on a roof as a painter. I was told " do you fall down just waking around" no "then good just do it" buster Keaton is an amazing example of just do it.

[@huetuber1204]

Jackie Chan is one thing. But Buster Keaton is literally CRAZY.

[@davidnelson3757]

Jackie Chan is a re incarnation of Buster , not literally but if you ask him where he gets his insperation he says Buster Keaton

[@ninjavigilante5311]

@@davidnelson3757 he also said Harold lyold don't forget

[@jonb3167]

Jackie has done some incredibly wild stunts as well.

[@jamessmithe5490]

In Sherlock Jr when he goes into and out of the movie screen the effects are flawless. He was a mechanical genius on top of being a fearless stuntman/athlete. .

[@donyoung7874]

Woody Allen borrowed the trick for Purple Rose of Cairo decades later.

[@JiveDadson]

A l2-year-old mind decided to put a music loop on this, and picked it out himself.

[@sockmon1]

@@CARILYNF I think that's actually a lowercase "L" before the number 2, so you're just an asshole again. Typical you.