SUBJECTS

College sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- Drama, College students -- United States -- Drama

College

James W. Horne
United States, 1927

Digital Restoration
Recommended for ages 10 & up

  • Judith Rosenberg
    Live Music
    Judith Rosenberg

    On piano

featuring

Buster Keaton, Ann Cornwall, Harold Goodwin, Snitz Edwards,

Following on the rigor of The General, Keaton offered College to his many fans as a pure laugh-riot, and it is, the more so if you identify (as you must) with Buster’s Little Man on Campus: an egghead freshman in an exclusively jock college who, unlike his moneyed classmates, has to work his way through school. Keaton holds no illusions about male bonding or male privilege, and College remains as current as the day it was made. With one exception: Buster in blackface (an all-too-common holdover from vaudeville) is hounded out of the cafeteria by the black kitchen staff, the point being that he is everywhere the outsider.

Judy Bloch
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Carl Harbaugh
  • Bryan Foy
Cinematographer
  • J. Devereux Jennings
  • Bert Haines
Language
  • English
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • Silent
  • 64 mins
Source
  • Kino Lorber
CINEFILES

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College (review), Reader (Chicago, Ill.), 2004

On film : surreal meets slapstick (program note), Reader (Chicago, Ill.), Bill Stamets, 2002

Buster Keaton forever: Keaton centennial: 1895-1995 (program note), Pacific Film Archive, Judy Bloch, 1995

Keaton 100 (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, Sam Harkness, 1995

Forever Buster: Buster Keaton centennial tribute (program note), Castro Theatre, 1995

Keaton, the man who wouldn't lie down -- excerpt (book excerpt), Charles Scribner's Sons, Tom Dardis, 1979

College (distributor materials), Kit Parker Films, 1979

Keaton, the man who wouldn't lie down -- excerpt (book excerpt), Charles Scribner's Sons, Tom Dardis, 1979

Buster Keaton -- excerpt (book excerpt), Indiana University Press, David Robinson, 1969

Buster Keaton Film Festival de films (program note), National Film Theatre (Ottawa), 1968

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