Buster Keaton to have a comic slant. After Keaton's successful work with Arbuckle, Schenck gave him his own production unit, Buster Keaton Productions. He made a series of two-reel comedies, including "One Week" (1920), "The Playhouse" (1921), "Cops" (1922), and "The Electric House" (1922). Keaton then moved to full-length features. Keaton's writers included Clyde Bruckman, Joseph Mitchell, and Jean Havez, but the most ingenious gags were generally conceived by Keaton himself. Comedy director Leo McCarey, recalling the freewheeling days of making slapstick comedies, said, "All of us tried to steal each other's gagmen. But we had no luck with Keaton, because he
Buster Keaton Rides Again with a retrospective of Keaton's work including scenes from "The Butcher Boy" (1917), "The Frozen North" (1922), "Seven Chances" (1925), and "The General" (1927). Keaton and Gerald Potterton, his director on "The Railrodder", discussed and occasionally argued over gags in the film with the director concerned about the safety of his star. During the filming of "The Railrodder", Keaton celebrated his 69th birthday. He also had the opportunity to meet fans across Canada. Filmed concurrently with the production of "The Railrodder" during the fall of 1964, the NFB documentary was filmed in black-and-white, as opposed to the short film itself,