Elgin Lessley
Nascimento : 1883-01-10,
Morte : 1944-02-08
História
Elgin Lessley (also credited as Lesly, Lessly, and Leslie) (June 10, 1883 - January 10, 1944) was an American hand-crank cameraman of the silent film era—a period of filmmaking when virtually all special effects work had to be produced inside the camera during filming. Though Lessley worked earlier with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, and later with Harry Langdon, he is best known for the groundbreaking effects he produced with Buster Keaton, who dubbed him "the human metronome" for his ability to crank consistently at any requested speed.
Lessley's most striking effects were in The Playhouse (1921) and Sherlock Jr. (1924). In The Playhouse, through use of a specially shuttered lens and repeated back-cranking and re-cranking, Lessley allowed Keaton to appear as up to nine characters simultaneously, interacting with one another. In Sherlock Jr., Lessley's careful positioning of camera and actor in various locations produced the effect of a man stuck in a movie where his location keeps changing as he struggles to keep up. Lessley retired from filmmaking after shooting The Cameraman with Buster Keaton in 1928.
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Um pacato e atrpalhado fotógrafo consegue um trabalho de cinegrafista em um jornal e se mete em muita confusão cobrindo o dia a dia da cidade tentando impressionar uma garota.
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A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes up with a novel solution--he makes the husband take his wife's place in the household--including dressing like her--for 30 days to see what it's like to be his wife.
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Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants. Almost immediately, he is expected to marry his childhood sweetheart Priscilla... but instead, Harry's first heady whiff of manhood has got him panting after Bebe, a "fast" woman from the big city. Mistakenly thinking that Bebe fancies him too, Harry risks everything to help her out when she lands in jail, only to end up in hot water himself. Through it all, sweet Priscilla waits for her man to come to his senses.
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Johnnie Gray é apaixonado por sua locomotiva chamada General, e também por Annabelle Lee. Durante a Guerra da Secessão, General e Annabelle são raptadas por espiões da União e Johnnie tentará salvá-las em uma aventura através da ferrovia.
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Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, um soldado belga se apaixona por um jovem chamada Mary Brown, após receber uma misteriosa foto. Após a guerra, o jovem belga vai para a América como assistente de um "homem forte" do teatro, Zandow, o Grande. Enquanto isto, nos Estados Unidos, ele procura por seu amor.
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A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also has fallen in love with the girl on the company's billboards, the competition's daughter, and her sweet inspiration keeps him tramping along.
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With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
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Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
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The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their honeymoon. When circumstances find both Rollo and Betsy on the wrong ship, they end up having adventures on the high seas.
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Aspirante a detetive, um projecionista de cinema se vê em maus lençóis quando um rival rouba o relógio do pai da sua amada e o acusa. De volta ao seu trabalho, durante uma projeção, ele adormece e sonha que ele está em um filme, onde é o detetive da história, procurando por umas jóias roubadas.
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Na viagem de volta para sua cidade natal, Willie McKay se apaixona pela jovem Virginia, sem saber que ela é de uma família inimiga da sua, os Canfield. Como em sua terra a hospitalidade é um valor muito prezado, ele decide se instalar na casa dos Canfield, que se vêem obrigados a tratá-lo da melhor forma.
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Nesta sátira de "Intolerância", clássico de D. W. Griffth, um homem disputa o amor de uma bela mulher em três épocas diferentes. Dirigido por Buster Keaton, um dos grandes comediantes do cinema mudo.
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In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at the sea when he's caught by pirates.
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Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon which lands Buster in the wilderness proves useful later on as their canoe is about go over a waterfall.
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In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, Buster goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various jobs which her imagination expands into much nobler ones than those that he is actually attempting.
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Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.
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This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing a gambling house. When he thinks he spies his wife making love to another man he shoots them both only to learn it isn't his cabin after all.
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Buster faz palhaçadas na oficina de um ferreiro até que ele e o ferreiro entram em uma briga que manda o ferreiro para a prisão. Buster ajuda vários clientes com cavalos, depois destrói um Rolls Royce enquanto conserta o carro estacionado ao lado dele.
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Buster is falsely accused of breaking a window by a woman and is taken into a courtroom. Thinking that Buster and the woman are engaged, the judge mistakenly marries them and Buster is quickly taken home by the woman to meet her family. At first unwelcoming, the family begins to treat Buster nice when they come to believe that he is going to inherit a large sum of money.
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Em ritmo frenético, a polícia persegue um homem pela cidade após uma escalada de mal entendidos divertidos. Sua sorte depende de sua habilidade de lidar com os absurdos nessa perseguição.
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A series of adventures begins when Buster is mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the evil bad guy.
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Buster é jogado de um trem perto de um parque de diversões. Lá ele consegue um emprego em uma galeria de tiro dirigida pela máfia Blinking Buzzards. Ordenado a matar um empresário, ele acaba protegendo o homem e sua filha, equipando sua casa com truques.
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A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.
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Buster é um bancário. A cola virada fica com tudo, principalmente o dinheiro, grudado em todo o resto. Quando os ladrões aparecem, ele não pode "furá-los" porque suas mãos estão enfiadas nos bolsos. O esconderijo dos ladrões é uma casa assombrada projetada para assustar a polícia.
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The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.
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Buster competes with another farmhand for the love of the farmer's daughter.
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A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
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The story involves two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, who receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in "one week." A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates. The movie recounts Keaton's struggle to assemble the house according to this new "arrangement."
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Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.
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Buster manages the store while Roscoe delivers the mail, taking time out for hide-and-seek with Molly. The constable, also interested in Molly, steals $300 while being observed by Buster.
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Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it's up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.
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At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse. A sham robbery turns into a real one. And there is a chase on a runaway trolley.
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An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
