Buster Keaton was an American actor, director, producer, writer and stunt performer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physically comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" Volume 1 - The Festival 1 - Short Films - Convict 13 - The High Sign - The Scarecrow - Cops - The Goat - The Hayseed Volume 2 - The Festival 2 - Short Films - The Blacksmith - The Boat - The Paleface - The Balloonatic - My Wife's Relations - The Electric House Volume 3 The General - 1926 One of the most revered comedies of the silent era, this film finds hapless Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray) facing off against Union soldiers during the American Civil War. When Johnny's fiancee, Annabelle Lee, is accidentally taken away while on a train stolen by Northern forces, Gray pursues the soldiers, using various modes of transportation in comic action scenes that highlight Keaton's boundless wit and dexterity. Volume 4 Steamboat Bill - 1928 In this silent comedy, college boy William Canfield Jr. reunites with his boat captain father in a Mississippi River town. Though he's flummoxed by Willie's

appearance, the elder Canfield seems to have found an ally to help him complete with fellow riverboat owner John James King. Willie finds himself falling for King's daughter, Mary, but he has more pressing concerns when the weather turns bad and his father is arrested. Volume 5 Speak Easily - 1932 Prof. Post is a shy Classics professor at Potts College, who has lived a sheltered life and has little experience of life outside of academia. Feeling that the professor should see more of the real world, his assistant tricks the professor into thinking that he inherited $750,000, allowing the professor to leave academia and see the world.