This famous stunt in the movie was actually built around what went wrong with the original stunt. Keaton intended to leap from one building onto the roof of another building, but he fell short, smashing into the brick wall and falling into a net off-screen. He was injured badly enough to be laid up for three days. But when he saw the film (his camera operators were instructed to always keep filming, no matter what happened), he not only kept the mishap, he built on it, adding the fall through three awnings, the loose downspout that propels him into the firehouse, and the slide down the fire pole. (The Three Ages - 1923)

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Buster Keaton for Smirnoff Vodka. Photographed by Bert Stern.

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stardustmelody:

A movie theater in the 1920s showing a Buster Keaton film.

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stardustmelody:

MGM 25th Anniversary Dinner

Jimmy Durante, Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Van Heflin, Katharine Hepburn, Lena Horne, Buster Keaton, Gene Kelly, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh, Jeanette Macdonald, Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra

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A Buster Keaton cabinet? You betcha!  

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Buster Keaton
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One of the great faces: Buster Keaton, 1920s

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Buster Keaton

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Buster Keaton

(October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966)

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Beautiful beyond words. *love*

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