
#123movies #fmovies #putlocker #gomovies #solarmovie #soap2day Watch Full Movie Online Free – A meek and mild projectionist, who also cleans up after screenings, would like nothing better than to be a private detective. He becomes engaged to a pretty girl but a ladies man known as the Sheik vies for her affection. He gets rid of the projectionist by stealing a pocket watch belonging to the girl’s father – which he pawns to buy her an expensive box of candy. He then slips the pawn ticket into the projectionist’s pocket and subsequently is found by the police. He doesn’t have much luck but in his dreams, he the debonair and renowned detective Sherlock Jr. who faces danger and solves the crime. In real life, the girl solves crimes quickly.
Plot: A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend’s father’s pocketwatch.
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A World of Possibilities
Not only is this Buster Keaton’s best film, but it is among the greatest achievements in the history of cinema, period. While it is not a feature-length film–and thus barred from most critics’ lists of great films–it invented just about every single basic special effect known to movies (except for morphing). The story itself, about a film projectionist who desires to become part of the movies, and then does, by walking right onto the screen, made palpable the desire that we all have to be in the movies: To get the girl, to be an action hero, to outsmart the bad guys. Keaton invented meta-cinema before anyone even had a phrase for it.This movie has entered our dreams.
short, silent, and really funny
My second silent film for the class that I viewed for my class was just as entertaining as the first, which was Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus. Buster Keaton playing the role of the movie projectionist Sherlock Jr. was very entertaining. The story is simple, yet interesting and fun, and the movie comes in at much less than one hour, 44 minutes to be exact. While there are a few points in the movie that are disjointed and not as fun, overall you can stay engrossed enough until you get to some really cool and innovative special effects, which given the technological limitations when this was filmed in the 1920’s are simply amazing.
Original Language en
Runtime 45 min, 49 min (1924) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Action, Comedy, Romance
Director Buster Keaton
Writer Jean C. Havez (story), Joseph A. Mitchell (story), Clyde Bruckman (story)
Actors Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly
Country USA
Awards 1 win.
Production Company Buster Keaton Productions Inc. [us]
Website N/A
Sound Mix Silent, DTS (musical score)
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 1,233 m (Sweden), 1,239 m (5 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 16 mm, 35 mm