Kino continues working their way through the Buster Keaton catalogue with this incredible looking 3-disc Blu-ray collection of short films, due in stores in just over a week.

“Authorized by the Buster Keaton estate and mastered in HD from 35mm archival film elements, The Short Films Collection gathers all of Keaton’s solo silent comedies in one monumental three-disc set. Widely considered to be among Keaton’s finest work, the nineteen two-reel shorts are loaded with laughs, punctuated by breath-taking stunts, and bursting with raw creativity. Over the course of this three-year period, Keaton evolved from a successful slapstick comedian into one of cinema’s most inventive visual stylists, and became an enduring icon of American popular culture.“

BUSTER KEATON: THE SHORT FILMS COLLECTION (1920 – 1923)
(July 12, 2011 – MSRP $49.95)
Video: 1.33:1 1080p

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Disc 1:

• The High Sign (1920/21, 19 Min.)
• One Week (1920, 24 Min.)
• Convict 13 (1920, 19 Min.)
• The Scarecrow (1920, 18 Min.)
• Neighbors (1921, 19 Min.)
• The Haunted House (1921, 20 Min.)
• Hard Luck (1921, 21 Min.)

Disc 2:

• The Goat (1921, 23 Min.)
• The Play House (1921, 23 Min.)
• The Boat (1921, 23 Min.)
• The Paleface (1922, 20 Min.)
• Cops (1922, 18 Min.)
• My Wife’s Relations (1922, 17 Min.)

Disc 3:

• The Blacksmith (1922, 21 Min.)
• The Frozen North (1922, 17 Min.)
• Day Dreams (1922, 19 Min.)
• The Electric House (1922, 23 Min.)
• The Balloonatic (1923, 22 Min.)
• The Love Nest (1923, 20 Min.)

Bonus Features:

• Fifteen visual essays, illustrated with clips and stills, written by various Keaton experts.
• Four visual essays on the film’s locations by Silent Echoes author John Bengston
• Eight page booklet with an essay by Jeffrey Vanc, author of Buster Keaton Remembered
• The Men Who Would Be Buster, a collection of clips from slapstick films influenced by Keaton’s work
• Character Studies (ca. 1925) a gag film starring Carter DeHaven, with cameos by Keaton, Harold Lloyd Fatty Arbuckle and others
• Seeing Stars (excerpts) a 1922 promotional film featuring cameos by Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and others
• A series of brief, alternate / deleted shots from The Goat, The Blacksmith and The Ballonatic

Via: Blu-ray.com

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