Buster Keaton with Robert Israel on Pipe Organ

Buster Keaton with Robert Israel on Pipe Organ

SHERLOCK Jr. , 1924,  THE COOK, 1918, plus rare silent animation

Enjoy a hilarious Buster Keaton double bill with original pipe organ score performed live on theater pipe organ by internationally acclaimed silent cinema organist and composer Robert Israel, (he wrote the 'Itchy and Scratchy' theme song on The Simpsons) in the stunning 1930s WPA deco Barnum Hall.

SHERLOCK JR (1924) is packed with Buster Keaton's relentlessly inventive sight gags and impossible physical feats.  Filmed without cuts or camera tricks, Keaton performed stunts himself and literally broke his neck during shooting.  As a daydreaming projectionist, Keaton appears in a pioneering visual effects dream sequence which is as surreal as it is hysterical. 

Roscoe "Fatty"Arbuckle is THE COOK, (1918) and Buster Keaton is the waiter at the Bull Pup Cafe and deliver seemingly impossible acrobatics and food juggling, as well as a spoof of Theda Bara's  'Salome' with kitchen gadgets.  The real star may be Luke the Dog in the most strenuous roof-top chase on film.

Plus rare silent Krazy Kat and Mutt & Jeff cartoons!

Benefits the Santa Monica High School Band Program