Silent Sundays: Tribute to Buster Keaton

Come enjoy a Sunday afternoon with silent film classics accompanied live by professional pianist Adam Swanson! The summer Silent Sundays program will be another Tribute to Buster Keaton! Adam has yet to screen Keaton’s feature film Sherlock Jr. for Durango audiences, and rounding out the program will be one of Keaton’s best-loved shorts, The Boat. All films will be accompanied with original period music LIVE on the DAC’s beautiful 9-foot grand piano. These events will be family friendly, so bring your kids and enjoy this fun and unique opportunity.
The Boat (Joseph M. Schenck Productions, 1921)
Starring Buster Keaton
The Boat is among the greatest highlights from Keaton’s huge catalogue of comedic shorts. Keaton builds his own homemade boat, the Damfino, but when he takes his family for a ride the results are disastrous. Advertisements of the period said, “They dusted out the best bunk in Mr. David Jones’ locker when Keaton kast off on his komedy kruise”!
Sherlock Jr. (Joseph M. Schenck Productions, 1924)
Starring Buster Keaton
A film projectionist longs to be a detective and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend’s father’s pocket watch. Joe Keaton plays the father and the girlfriend is played by Kathryn McGuire. Sherlock Jr. becomes a film within a film in a very unusual and forward-thinking dream sequence!