Preceded by: Astray from the Steerage: Mack Sennett burlesques the (already surreal) process of going through U.S. immigration. "Clearly, comedy shares with filmed terror qualities that a Surrealist regards as of the greatest promise...In 'Mack Sennett Libérateur du Cinéma,' (Robert) Desnos speaks for the group when declaring that Sennett 'has introduced into the cinema a new element that is neither the comic nor the tragic, but, to be accurate, the most elevated form of the cinema, on the plane of ethics, of love, of poetry, and of liberty'" (J. H. Matthews, Surrealism and Film). Produced by Mack Sennett. Directed by Frank Powell. With Billy Bevan, Louise Fazenda. (1920, 28 mins, Silent, B&W, 16mm, Print from Museum of Modern Art) "Here is Buster Keaton with his latest and admirable film, College. Asepsia. Disinfection. Liberated from tradition, our outlook is rejuvenated in the youthful and temperate world of Buster, the great specialist against all sentimental infection. The film is as beautiful as a bathroom, vital as a Hispano...In cinema we would always prefer the monochord expression of a Keaton to the variety of a Jannings...With Buster Keaton the expression is as modest as that of a bottle for example: although around the round, clear circuit of his pupils dances his aseptic soul. But the bottle and the face of Buster have their viewpoints in infinity...There are those who have sought to believe Buster the 'anti-virtuoso,' inferior to Chaplin, to reckon it some sort of disadvantage...what the rest of us reckon a virtue, that Keaton arrives at comedy through direct harmony with objects, situations and the other means of his work. Keaton is full of humanity: but of an actual and not a synthetic humanity..."--Luis Buñuel, "Buster Keaton's College" (1927)