Bret Wood Movies

Documentary on Day Dreams (1922), a Buster Keaton silent comedy.

Bruce Lawton discusses Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith (1922), a film that Keaton had dismissed as a "lesser" work.

The special effects in The Play House (1921) are discussed.

The actors in My Wife's Relations (1922) are discussed in this documentary.

A short documentary on Buster Keaton's The Frozen North (1922), regarding how the events of Fatty Arbuckle's trial and William S. Hart's quick...

Ben Model discusses scoring music for silent movies.

Short documentary on the making of Buster Keaton's One Week.

Documentary about the making of Buster Keaton's silent comedy classic, Sherlock Jr. (1924).

A discussion on restoring title cards to English from foreign source prints.

The evolution of The Scarecrow (1920) is discussed in this documentary.

Documentary about the Buster Keaton short Hard Luck (1921).

A troubled veteran returns home to resume his life, but first he must fulfill a dreadful family obligation.

A mysterious assemblage of men use led by a man in red use a tarot deck to determine what punishment to mete out to those they've already determined...

A young woman masquerades as a census taker in order to gain entry into her mother's home.

In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, provides a tour of where...

A short documentary on the works of Buster Keaton.

David Kalat discusses the works of Buster Keaton.