The Electric House
1922 film
- October 16, 1922 (1922-10-16)
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The Electric House is a 1922 American short comedy film co-directed by and starring Buster Keaton.[1]
Plot
Three graduating students drop their degree certificates, but each picks up the wrong ones off the floor. Keaton plays a botany student who, accidentally, picked up an electrical engineering degree and is invited to wire a home using many gadgets. The man who actually was the electrical engineer graduate exacts revenge by rewiring those gadgets to cause mayhem.
Cast
- Buster Keaton as himself
- Virginia Fox as Girl (uncredited)
- Joe Keaton as Extra (uncredited)
- Louise Keaton as Extra (uncredited)
- Myra Keaton as Extra (uncredited)
- Joe Roberts as Homeowner (uncredited)
Production
During the original scheduled shooting of the film in 1920, Keaton suffered a broken ankle filming a sequence with the electric staircase. The project was shelved, and then re-done entirely. The known version today is actually the second version filmed; no copies of the original footage from 1920 are known to exist.
See also
- Buster Keaton filmography
References
- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: The Electric House". Silent Era. Retrieved February 26, 2008.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Electric House.
- The Electric House at IMDb
- The short film The Electric House is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
- The Electric House at the International Buster Keaton Society
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