Links to our favorite sites
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The
Actors' Colony at Bluffton 1908 - 1938 Buster Keaton and the Muskegon Connection |
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Save
Buster's Ballfield While Buster may have enjoyed the occasional sandlot baseball game while on the road with the family's vaudeville act, it wasn't until the Keatons settled in Muskegon that his love of the game really flourished. Help save this landmark! |
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Buster Keaton Baseball Player |
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Keaton - Bridal Run video From the 2010 Keaton Convention. |
 Keaton in "The Three Ages"  McCay emerges in his masterpiece, "Gertie the Dinosaur" ![[winsor.gif]](winsor.jpg) Winsor McCay |
Meeting McCay Spring Lake, MI was the childhood home to animation pioneer Winsor McCay - a mere 15 miles away from Bluffton. "Even Buster Keaton paid homage to McCay, in his 1923 film The Three Ages. He asked his writer, Clyde Bruckman, 'Remember Gertie the Dinosaur? . . . The first cartoon comedy ever made. I saw it in a nickelodeon when I was fourteen. I'll ride in on an animated cartoon.' " |
 The Lake Michigan Park Theater |
Muskegon's
Lake Michigan Park |
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Bluffton Church 3320 Thompson Ave Muskegon, MI Services - Sundays at 11am |
| Bluffton Church | |
 Every October |
Muskegon Area Arts &
Humanities Festival |
 The Stage at the Frauenthal |
Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts |
 On your way to Bluffton |
The Lakeside District located between downtown Muskegon and Bluffton |
 The Harbor Theater in Lakeside |
The Harbor Theater 1937 Lakeshore Dr Muskegon MI A non-profit neighborhood theater Please support it! |
 An Old Fashioned Candy Store 1930 Lakeshore Dr. Muskegon, MI |
Lakeside Emporium
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 On display at the L.C Walker Arena |
Muskegon Area Sports Hall of Fame |
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Scott and Sue-Hiza Rosema's Temujin Studio |
| Keaton and Friends | |
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The
International Buster Keaton Society aka - The Damfinos |
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BusterStuff.com |
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Keaton's Donation to the Smithsonian |
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Buster Keaton on Facebook |
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Project Keaton |
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More Buster on Facebook |
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David
B. Pearson's "Arbucklemania" |
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Iola Keaton Celebration |
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John
Bengtson's Silent Echoes |
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Steamboat
Willie Walt Disney's third Mickey Mouse cartoon, released on November 18, 1928 and inspired by Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr. |
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My Career at
the Rear Buster Keaton in World War I by Martha R. Jett |
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Juha's Buster Keaton Page |
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Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's Vernon Tigers |
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Pepito the Spanish Clown Performed before Charlie Chaplin's "The Circus" with Samaroff and Sonia at Sid Grauman's prologue "Ballyhoo" |
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Edwin "Poodles" Hanneford also appeared on the bill of "Ballyhoo" |
| Music, Film and Video | |
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Understanding Film by Ranjit Sandhu |
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Ranjit Sandhu on
The General |
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CBC / Radio-Canada Archives 1964 Keaton interview with Telescope's Fletcher Markle, recounting his early years in vaudeville on through his days in film. Watch the twinkle in his eyes as he recalls his days behind and in front of the camera. Great stuff! |
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Buster Keaton TV Listings |
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The Detroit Free Press describes
them as "more adventurous than anyone else dares to be." Indeed, bLuE daHLia's approach to scoring silent cinema is not traditional. Personally, I think that's a wonderful thing! |
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Mont Alto collects original compositions and orchestrations from the turn of the century through 1930 for its silent film presentations. The results, in the words of the Dave Kehr of the New York Times, "often breathtakingly beautiful and always in the strict service of the film on the screen." |
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The thirteen-piece Bijou Orchestra is the only ensemble of its kind in the country. They play it all, from 19th century salon orchestrations of the classics, through Ragtime, Tin Pan Alley and Swing, and on to Broadway, klezmer, Latin jazz and good old-fashioned rock and roll. |
| August and Everything After | |
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Tim Lussier's "Silents Are Golden" |
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Dwight Fine Arts |