Making Buster Keaton's Classic Part 1 | The General

The General
Buster Keaton's Silent Masterpiece Part 1

Hello everyone! Welcome to the first in an ongoing YouTube series, Locomotion: Trains in the Movies & the Stories Behind Them. Hop aboard, as we discover together the
fascinating and colorful history of trains in the movies, how they are made and the artists who created them.

In The General, Buster Keaton’s Silent Masterpiece Part 1, we’ll explore the work of a film genius at the height of his creative powers.Today The General is regarded today as one of the greatest American films. When compared to other silent pictures of the era, Keaton’s editing and pacing feels modern. As a film maker and train lover, it’s a movie I never tire of watching.

If you enjoyed Part 1, we invite you to watch Part 2: We’ll explore the downs and ups of Buster Keaton's career and life. We'll see how his silent masterpiece and the real civil war engines from The Great Locomotive Chase were very nearly lost forever, how they were saved from destruction and finally restored. We'll learn what happened to the engines Keaton used to film The General and other movies shot on the same Oregon railroad.
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The General
Buster Keaton's Silent Masterpiece

Producer•Director•Writer
Robert Diepenbrock

Producer•Graphic Designer
Cathy Beard

Editors
Robert Diepenbrock & Cathy Beard

Narrator
Robert Diepenbrock

Voice Talent
Peter Xifo | Buster Keaton
Cathy Beard | Marion Mack
James Stanley | Reporter
Tammy Stanley | Spectator & Reporter
Laurie Fagen | Reporter

Video Credits
The General
1926 Joseph M. Schenck Productions, Public Domain 1926

One Week
1920 Metro Pictures Corp, Public Domain 1949

Our Hospitality
1923 Joseph M. Schenck Productions, Public Domain 2019

The Navigator
1924 MGM Pictures Corp, Public Domain 2020

Sherlock Jr.
1924 Joseph M. Schenck Productions, Public Domain 2020

Steamboat Bill Jr.
1928 Joseph M. Schenck Productions, Public Domain 1957

Railroad Raiders of ‘62
Kalem Company, Blackhawk Films

Buster Keaton, A Hard Act To Follow
1987 Thames Television

The Lone Ranger
2013 Walt Disney Pictures

Railroad Tigers
2016 Shanghai Film Group

The Electric House
1922 Buster Keaton Productions, Inc., Public Domain 1951

Cops
1922 Comique Film Corp., Public Domain 1951

The Great Race
1965 Warner Brothers

Out West
1918 Paramount Pictures

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2001 Warner Bros. Entertainment

Back to the Future III
1990 Universal Pictures

Music
Excerpts from Original The General Piano Score
by William P. Perry

Maximilian (Locomotion Show Open)
Created by Bonnie Grace, Epidemic Sound
Courtesy of Canva.com

A Day Together
Created by Jon Bjork, Epidemic Sound
Courtesy of Canva.com

Credits & Sources

Atlanta History Center
Canva.com
Cohen Film Collection
Cottage Grove Historical Society
International Buster Keaton Society
Kalem Company
Killiam Shows, Inc.
Kino Lorber Films
Library of Congress
MovieClips.com
Pinterest
Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History
Trains Magazine
John Walsh, Deviant Art (Buster Keaton Fan Poster)
UK Films
University of Notre Dame Archives
Wikipedia

Special Thanks To

Katy Vaughn • Lloyd Williams
The Cottage Grove Historical Society
cghistory.org

David Pearson • Jill Abernathy
The International Buster Keaton Society
www.busterkeaton.org

John Bengtson
silentlocations.com

Bryan Neumeister CEO
USA Forensic LLC
www.usaforensic.com

References

The General Locomotive
The Southern Museum of Civil War
and Locomotive History, Kennesaw, Georgia
www.southernmuseum.org/exhibits

The Texas Locomotive
The Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Georgia
www.atlantahistorycenter.com/explore/
exhibitions/texas-locomotive

The General is available on DVD, Blu-Ray
and through Amazon

A high quality digital 4K version of
The General is available through the
Cohen Film Collection
www.cohenfilmcollection.net