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Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1920, his first released independent short after the Arbuckle years. Newlyweds get a kit house. A rejected suitor renumbers the crates. The thing they build is crooked, then it sits on a turntable and spins in a storm. Metro put it out. The house is full size. So is the train that finishes the week.
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Keaton's method in nineteen minutes. A kit house built from renumbered crates, walls facing the wrong way, and then the whole thing spinning on a turntable in a storm. He built it full size because a model would not fall right. Engineering as punchline.
The first construction problem: a kit house with the crates renumbered, walls facing the wrong way, and a turntable so the whole thing can spin in a storm. Full size, because a model would not fall right. Then a train. The notebook opens here.
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