21-473: One Week may refer to: One Week (1920 film) , a short film starring and co-directed by Buster Keaton One Week (2008 film) , a Canadian feature film directed by Michael McGowan "One Week" (song) , a 1998 song by Barenaked Ladies See also [ edit ] One Week to Save Your Marriage Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
42-519: A Buster Keaton work, has more fun in it than most slap-stick, trick-property comedies". The Muncie Evening Press wrote: "Buster Keaton's 'One Week' is one of the funniest pictures ever made and plants Buster firmly on his feet as star". The Santa Clarita Valley Signal wrote: "If Buster Keaton in 'One Week' broke loose in a museum he'd tickle the mummies to life again. You never knew such fast and furious fun as this clever comedian provokes in his seven-day wonder". The Akron Evening Times agrees: "It
63-498: A four-reeler charting a young couple's adventures. Virginia Fox , who had been hired for the latter film, was replaced with Sybil Seely who had starred in One Week . However, the idea of combining the films never came to fruition. Sybil Seely plays the young bride in her film debut. The mischievous rival ("Handy Hank") is an unknown actor. Joe Roberts has a brief bit as a strong-man piano mover. Many special effects, such as
84-422: A lopsided structure with revolving walls, kitchen fixtures on the exterior, and upper-floor doors that open onto thin air. During a housewarming party on Friday the 13th , a storm spins the house and its occupants around like a merry-go-round. The couple find they have built the house on the wrong lot and must move it. They manage to move it on rollers but it stalls on railroad tracks. The couple try to move it out
105-401: A year earlier, he delayed its release because he felt it too closely mimicked Arbuckle's style; he also "thought the gags were too ridiculous and clever for their own sake". The High Sign was released April 4, 1921. At that time, Keaton had broken his ankle while filming the first version of The Electric House and his company needed to market a new film. Guitarist Bill Frisell released
126-429: Is 21 minutes. Although One Week (1920) was Keaton's first independent film short released, The High Sign was the first one made. Disappointed with the result, Keaton shelved it and the film was not released until the following year. The title refers to the secret hand signal used by the film's underworld gang. Keaton plays a drifter who cons his way into working at an amusement park shooting gallery. Believing Keaton
147-424: Is a 1920 American two-reel silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton , the first independent film production he released on his own. The film was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline , and runs for 19 minutes. Sybil Seely co-stars. The film contains a large number of innovative visual gags largely pertaining to either the house or to ladders. In 2008, One Week was selected for preservation in
168-559: Is an expert marksman, both the murderous gang the Blinking Buzzards and the man they want to kill end up hiring him. The film ends with a wild chase through a house filled with secret passages and trap doors. The High Sign was Keaton's first independent production. In contrast to the "violent slapstick" of the films he had made with Fatty Arbuckle , this short film evinces the "dry and quiet comedy style" which would become Keaton's trademark. The climactic chase scenes inside
189-539: Is two reels in length and every foot of the two reels is packed with comedy situations and 'gags' that would start cackles at an undertaker's convention". The Los Angeles Evening Express wrote, "Buster Keaton's 'One Week' stands in a comedy class by itself". By early 1921, the film was being termed "one of the famous Buster Keaton comedies". More than half a century later, New York Times theater and film critic Walter Kerr wrote in his 1975 book The Silent Clowns , "To sit through dozens and dozens of short comedies of
210-554: The Ford Motor Company in 1919 to promote prefabricated housing . Keaton used numerous elements seen in the film, including "the wedding, the Model T and the use of the pages from a daily calendar to show the house being built in one week" in his comic parody. Years later, Keaton told an interviewer that the film's title is a play on Three Weeks , a notorious 1907 sex novel by Elinor Glyn . Keaton reportedly joked that it
231-547: The United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The story involves a newlywed couple who receive a kit house as a wedding gift. The instructions describe how to construct the house by assembling materials in numbered packing crates. A rejected suitor secretly renumbers packing crates, and the result is
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#1732800981542252-420: The frenetic climax ... and then that climax outmatched by the final sequence". Furthermore, the film lay the basis for the cinematic techniques of his future films: "The simple setups, the flat comedy lighting, the spare use of titles—and the overall excellence of the direction". According to Eleanor Keaton , Buster originally thought to combine two of his two-reel films, One Week and The Boat (1921), into
273-455: The house spinning around during a storm and the train collision, were filmed as they occurred and were not model work. The house was constructed on a turntable so that it could spin around during the storm scene. The train collision was filmed at the Inglewood train station. Keaton reused the gag of the side of a building falling on him, but emerging unscathed in the opening of a window in
294-581: The house take place on a split-level, cutaway set with revolving wall panels, trap doors, and hidden corridors in all the rooms. Filming took place at the studios of the Comique Film Corporation recently vacated by Arbuckle. Keaton also began working with Arbuckle's former cinematographer Elgin Lessley and technical director Fred Gabourie , who remained with him until he signed with MGM in 1929. Though Keaton completed The High Sign
315-597: The period and then to come upon One Week is to see the one thing no man ever sees: a garden at the moment of blooming." Some of the themes of One Week were reused in The Three Stooges ' short film The Sitter Downers (1937). Guitarist Bill Frisell released a soundtrack to the film in 1995 on his album The High Sign/One Week . The High Sign The High Sign is a 1921 two-reel silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton , and written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline . Its runtime
336-458: The swelling with olive oil and horse liniment . The film is noted for a risqué (for its time) scene involving Seely's character taking a bath. She drops a bar of soap out of the tub and waits until (as a fourth wall -breaking gag) someone's hand is placed over the camera lens so she can lean out and retrieve it. Although intended as a joke, the scene has appeared in a number of documentaries as an example of pre-Hays Code censorship. One Week
357-465: The title One Week . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=One_Week&oldid=543143611 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages One Week (1920 film) One Week
378-535: The wall, from the Fatty Arbuckle –Keaton film Back Stage ; he would reuse the same joke in The Blacksmith (1922) and Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928). Keaton's fall down two stories after stepping out of the bathroom was one of the few times he injured himself badly. His arms and back swelled up a few hours after the filming. His physical trainer gave him both hot and cold showers and then treated
399-419: The way of an oncoming train, which eventually passes on the neighboring track. As the couple look relieved, the house is immediately struck and demolished by another train coming the other way. The groom stares at the scene, places a 'For Sale' sign with the heap (attaching the building instructions) and walks off with his bride. One Week was likely inspired by Home Made , an educational short film produced by
420-472: Was "one-third as scandalous". Knopf notes that One Week is Keaton's first attempt to move away from a plot-driven narrative, as he employed in his earlier film The High Sign , toward mining more and more gags from a few basic elements—in this case, the house and ladders. According to Kevin Brownlow , One Week "set the style for all the future Keatons; the opening gag sequence ... the slow build-up ...
441-400: Was released on September 1, 1920. It is noted as the first of Keaton's independent releases, although he had filmed The High Sign earlier. Keaton considered the latter film an inferior effort to debut with, and released it the following year when he was convalescing from an injury. One Week was one of the top-grossing releases of 1920. The New York Times review said: " One Week ,
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