The Goat
A mistaken-identity crisis precipitates an almost continuous - and continuously brilliant - chase through two adjoining towns where Buster Keaton is taken for Dead Eye Dan, Public Enemy.

Directed and Written by Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair . With Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox. (1921, 20 mins, silent with live musical accompaniment by Robert Vaughn)

The Playhouse
The finest extant print of this 1921 Keaton homage to the vaudeville of his youth, which begins with a clever dream illusion in which he plays the audience, the orchestra, and the performers of a small playhouse.

Directed and Written by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline. With Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox. (1921, 20 mins, silent with live musical accompaniment by Robert Vaughn)

Sherlock Jr.
Buster plays a movie projectionist falsely accused by his girlfriend's father of stealing a watch. Asleep on the job, he dreams that he is a famous detective out to solve the mystery of the missing watch. In one of the most astonishing sequences ever filmed, Buster slides down the beam of light from his projector and enters the world of the movie he is screening. As early as 1925, Sherlock Jr. was recognized by René Clair for its Pirandello-like dramatic structure and its surrealistic aspects. As impressive as these are Keaton's brilliantly modulated acrobatics, highlighted by the famous motorcycle ride with Keaton on the handlebars unaware that the driver has fallen off. J. A. Fieschi finds that Keaton “offers one of the most perfect definitions of our art” and notes “the dream embracing, and finally taking the place of, reality, with the synthesis resolved in the world of the screen, a world at once acted in and observed by Keaton and true to his actual situation” (quoted in Sadoul, “Dictionary of Films”).