Our Hospitality and Short Films

Neighbors (1921). Tenement lovers separated by a tall backyard fence and Buster nonchalantly performing acrobatic feats on clotheslines, teeter-totter boards, and telephone poles to reach his beloved. The intertitles offer biting jabs at lower-class family relations but the neighbors will go to any height to help these lovers. The film contains a blackface routine common to the times. Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Keaton, Joe Roberts. (25 mins) The Haunted House (1921). Perhaps the most absurd of the Keaton shorts, at the same time resembling the French serial Les Vampires with its mixture of hyper-reality and diabolical costume play. In a booby-trapped house, villains dressed as phantoms mix with members of a traveling opera company doing . Buster takes a stairway to heaven-and a neat slide to the other place. With Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Cline. (20 mins) The Frozen North (1922). Keaton does William S. Hart. "Two-Gun Bill" emerges from a subway kiosk to find himself in the middle of nowhere. With Keaton, Freeman Wood, Bonnie Hill. (25 mins)

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