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Buster Keaton
March 1, 2022
The New Republic
How Buster Keaton Revolutionized the Early Film Industry
A conversation with Dana Stevens, the author of “Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century”
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