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Charles Reisner, 1928, Buster Keaton Productions, United Artists. A college boy (Keaton) is sent to his father's Mississippi riverboat and into a feud with the rival steamer. The cyclone is the last act. A two-ton house facade falls around him; he is standing where the attic window is. Fred Gabourie built it. The clearance was inches. One take, because a second take would have required rebuilding the wall.
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The wall. Two tons of facade falling around a man standing where the attic window will pass, inches to spare, one take. Then the cyclone keeps going, a whole town coming apart around a face that does not. His last independent picture.
The house front. Two tons, one take, an attic window, inches. Gabourie built it and Keaton stood where he had marked. The cyclone is the whole last act, and the town comes apart around a face that does not. The last independent production.
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