Need a good laugh? Here are 28 hillariously funny scenes from silent films. They really knew physical comedy back then. The clips have also all been gloriously colorized for the first time.
Catch your favourite stars like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton at their finest, ripping yarns like only they can. The joke's on you!
Some of the famous film stars you'll see are:
1. Buster Keaton gets rejected by a hatcheck girl without a word in Seven Chances (1925)
2. Buster Keaton running from the police in Cops (1922)
3. Charlie Chaplin could get a lot of comedy out of sliding door, The Adventurer 1917
4. Keaton said this gag got some of the biggest laughs of his career. The ending was believed missing but was rediscovered in Russia. Hard Luck (1921).
5. Buster Keaton's film-making philosophy: "I always want the audience to out-guess me, and then I double-cross them."
6. The Bell Boy was released in 1918. Buster Keaton's gag still works a century later.
7. Buster Keaton being chased by a gang of murderers in The High Sign (1921)
8. Creatively depicting a phone conversation College Chums (1907)
9. Charlie Chaplin makes a sandwich go a long way. Behind the Screen (1916)
10. Buster Keaton's The Haunted House was released over 100 years ago on February 10, 1921.
11. "Chaplin wasn't the funniest. I wasn't the funniest. Stan Laurel was the funniest." - Buster Keaton
12. Mary Pickford sneezes. The mask-wearing crowd scatters during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918. Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
13. Buster Keaton takes the elevator. The Goat (1921)
14. "Railroads are a great prop. You can do some awful wild things with railroads." - Buster Keaton
15. Family portrait gone wrong. My Wife's Relations (1922)
16. Buster Keaton's car gets stuck on the train tracks - Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)
17. The last movie Buster Keaton made with Roscoe Arbuckle before going solo. The Garage (1920)
18. Smooth moves by Buster Keaton. The Cameraman (1928)
19. Gloria Swanson gets revenge on Lawrence Gray. Stage Struck (1925)
20. Harold Lloyd's amazing reflection gag. The Marathon (1919)
21. Buster Keaton 42 years apart, in 1920 and 1962
22. Billy Bevan accidentally vacuums up a pooch. Wall Street Blues (1924)
23. Believed to be the most expensive shot of the silent era, with a price tag of $42,000. The General (1926).
24. A Buster Keaton montage.
25. Buster Keaton - master of the hat.
26. Harold Lloyd distracts a police officer. Never Weaken (1921)
27. Buster Keaton helps Tom Wilson with his coffee. My Wife's Relations (1922)
28. Buster Keaton directing ghosts.The Haunted House (1921)
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