How many of you remember these guys!

That was fun, thanks GeoPeg

That was great. Thanks.

That was great...I actually remember them ALL! although more from re-runs than the actual first run movies.  The amazing thing is that almost all of those stunts (cars crossing in front of loco's etc..) were done for REAL! No digital editing like today.  In addition, many of the stars did it themselves, there were few "stuntmen" in the early days.  WOW

Thanks for posting

Don McErlean

Thanks for this. It really brightened my day. And I loved the Glenn Miller music.

A great look back at a simpler time where old time comedy was created by just making fun of human nature. Today's comedy is often risque and sometimes crude. Writers didn't resort to any of this back when this movie was made, yet it is much funnier than most comedy today.  Watch some of the Laurel and Hardy movies the Honeymooners episodes and you won't find comedy like that today. 

Fantastic, glad you posted it.

Here is another: The Marx Brothers in "Go West": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRUrWTP82PY

AHAHAHAHA....................thanks I needed that

Thanks! I needed that.

Very funny! The two most melancholy scenes for me, however, were the scene of the steam locomotive collapsing with a trestle into a river (from Keaton's "the General"), and the scene of all those fine steamer trunks on a cart being destroyed by a locomotive at a grade crossing. I have several of those, and the 100-year old workmanship that went into them is exquisite.

LOVE IT!   A KEEPER, FOR SURE!

Well, a bit ahead of my time,......but only by a bit.

OTOH, I remember going to the Apex Theater in D.C. with Dad to see these old slapstick comedies.  Yeah, they were a hoot, but what I REALLY remember was Dad's reaction.  Normally stern and serious, he would laugh until the tears were streaming down his cheeks at the antics of these iconics.....Chan, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, et al. 

The Keystone Cops (not featured in this composite?) and the use/abuse of old automobiles in the scenarios were his absolute favorite.   (I think he laughed at the film's opening title/credits before the action even started!!!)

In these serious times we live in now, it's too bad that short films of this sort aren't made anymore.   Or that this sort of comedy is beneath the 'dignity' (?) of Hollywood writers/producers/directors/actors.  Or that these oldies can't be found on a cable channel....like MeTV.  

Just my own d___d opinion, mind you.

KD

I am much to young to remember that.

Dizzy Dean singing Wabash Cannonball...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4nCPAmrfGI

THANKS for the laughs!

Love those. There are a few I have never seen. People may not realize, because they cut it up, but that's Buster Keaton grabbing hold of the water spout. Keaton famously did all his own stunts, but I remember reading that he underestimated the force of the water and broke his neck, not realizing it until years later. Aside from being a great comedian, he may have been the greatest stuntman in the history of the movies.

Now that qualifies as cool - at 2:04 - 2:12 I believe that's Fatty Arbuckle casually striking a match on the boxcar as it rolls by, then hopping the caboose.  

Here's 'The Railrodder' - a slower-paced short with Buster Keaton's famous frozen face doing sight-gags across Canada on a CN speeder: https://tinyurl.com/v8t8wku