Saturday, August 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Aero Theatre, Santa Monica
### **ABOUT THE FILMS:** **“The Balloonatic”, 1923, Dir. Buster Keaton, 22 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA** Buster rises to new heights as he sails heavenward in a balloon. He bumps into clouds and, in trying to bring down a duck, punctures the gas bag and crashes in the woods where he saves Phyllis Haver from a bear and falls in love. His courtship and the balloonatic events that follow are hilarious. FORMAT: DCP **“Cops”, 1922, Dir. Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, 18 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA** A carefully orchestrated series of gags in which Buster plays an innocent who tries to impress his girl by becoming more than he is, and winds up inextricably caught in a police parade that breaks up to pursue him. FORMAT: DCP **“The Haunted House”, 1921, Dir. Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, 20 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA** Bank teller Buster spills glue on his money, gets himself accused of robbery and winds up in a haunted house full of spooky devices. FORMAT: DCP **“The High Sign”, 1921, Dir. Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, 19 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA** Buster plays a contract-killer who must murder the town miser, August Nickelnurser. But Nickelnurser knows a good man when he sees one and hires Buster as his bodyguard. FORMAT: DCP **“The Goat”, 1921, Dir. Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair, 23 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA** A mistaken-identity crisis precipitates an almost continuous – and continuously brilliant chase through two adjoining towns where Buster is taken for ‘Deadeye Dan, Public Enemy’.” FORMAT: DCP