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Buster Keaton
THREE AGES
-with-
THE BLACKSMITH
Monday, March 14 at 6:10 pm ♪
♪ Live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner
THREE AGES
U.S., 1923
Directed by Buster Keaton
Starring Buster Keaton, Wallace Beery
DCP. Approx. 63 min.
In Buster’s first feature (apart from a “straight” part in the earlier The Saphead), Boy battles Wallace Beery for the Girl in the Stone Age, Ancient Rome and Jazz Age in a parody of Griffith’s Intolerance, though Algonquinite Robert Sherwood found it “fifty times as funny.” Lobster’s restoration is visually the most beautiful version since the 1920s. Restored by Lobster Films.
-with-
THE BLACKSMITH
(1922) As the Village smithy, Buster shoes his horses assembly-line style. Lobster’s restoration restores the final release version and many of its sight gags for the first time in nearly a century. Earlier existing copies were struck from the 1921 sneak preview version that Keaton rejected. DCP. Approx. 21 min. Restored by Lobster Films.