Walt Strony will accompany two Buster Keaton silent shorts, One Week (1920) and The Boat (1921) on the Plaza Theatre’s original Wyler Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ.
If you’ve never watched a silent movie to live accompaniment, you’ll be in for a treat when the master himself, Walt Strony, accompanies two Buster Keaton silent shorts on the Plaza Theatre’s restored Wyler Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ. One Week (1920, 24 minutes) was Keaton’s first independently made film. It’s about a newlywed couple whose attempts to build and keep a prefabricated home go awry. In its sequel, The Boat (1921, 23 minutes), that same couple (Sybil Keely played his wife) now has two children and a boat Buster has built inside their home, which is destroyed when he tries to pull it out with his Model T. Keaton’s use of sight gigs and innovations reached new heights in these shorts, which at one time he considered combining into one film. — Doug Pullen
