Buster Keaton's Crew: The Team Behind His Silent Films

by Lisle Foote

Buster Keaton told an interviewer in 1965, "When I'm working alone, the cameraman, the prop man, the electrician, these are my eyes out there.... They knew what they were talking about." Drawn from film trade magazines, newspapers, interviews and public records, this book tells the previously unpublished stories of the behind-the-scenes crew who worked on Keaton's silent films--like Elgin Lessley, who went from department store clerk to chief...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786496835
• ISBN13: 9780786496839
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher