A vaudeville star before the age of ten, Buster Keaton was preparing to make his Broadway debut in 1917 when a meeting with Rosco 'Fatty' Arbuckle changed the course of his life and that of the cinema forever. 'The Great Stone Face' translated marvelously to the screen, somehow surviving the disasters that came hurtling his way, to eventually become along with Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd one of the most popular comic actors of the Silent Era. Keaton's immediate fascination with the new medium led him to take the camera home, disassembling and reassembling it to more fully understand its
