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Buster Keaton’s Cops and Laurel & Hardy 1928 Year Two

Buster Keaton’s masterpiece Cops (1922) is one of his seven films inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry as a work of “enduring importance to American culture.” Cops is his only independently produced film with no interior scenes. Every scene was filmed outdoors at true locations, or on the backlots of Buster’s small studio, and the Goldwyn, Metro, and Brunton (United) Studio

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	Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton by John Bengston, John Bengtson (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.61 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silent Traces: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Charlie Chaplin by John Bengtson (Goodreads Author), Kevin Brownlow (Foreword by) 4.73 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silent Visions: Discovering Early Hollywood and New York Through the Films of Harold Lloyd by John Bengtson (Goodreads Author), Kevin Brownlow (Foreword) 4.62 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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