Bret Wood Movies

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

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

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

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

A short documentary on the works of Buster Keaton.

Documentary about Buster Keaton's The 'High Sign' (1921) and Keaton's developing style.

An exploration of La Oroya, an Andean smelting town caught in the tides of pollution and capital drain. The film charts U.S.-led industrialization...

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

"About the Restoration" provides an overview of the recovery effort, hosted by Bret Wood. Also of interest are examples of movie making mistakes that...

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

A glimpse at how genre film-focused home video companies have taken the charge in preserving, restoring, and releasing so many works which otherwise...

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

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...

Two women initiate their friend into the joys of evangelicalism.

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

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

David Kalat discusses the works of Buster Keaton.