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Buster Keaton, 1921: a young man sits on a bench next to a jailbird whose photograph is on the wanted poster behind them, and the rest of the two-reeler is the city deciding he is that man. Directed by Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair. The chase through the streets, the clay model that becomes a likeness, the jump onto a moving train. Already the Keaton grammar: a body that treats physics as a conversation. Virginia Fox is the girl. It is the short in which being looked at is the crime.
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The poster does the accusing. He sits down in front of it and the city takes the hint. Two reels: the chase, the clay bust that turns into his face, the jump onto a moving train. Watch him ride the front of the car through traffic without moving. That is the map.
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