Buster Keaton - Sherlock Jr. (1924) Billard scene

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Buster Keaton - Sherlock Jr. (1924) Billard scene

Missing the Shot in Sherlock, Jr.’s Pool Game

[This was originally posted on May 15, 2019, and was revised on May 18 to correct some factual errors brought to my attention by a colleague.] The pool game in Buster Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr. is one of the film’s many memorable sequences. For many years, one of the trick shots in the game was only

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Sherlock Jr – Video City: An actual shop

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Buster Keaton - Sherlock Jr. (1924) Billard scene

Missing the Shot in Sherlock, Jr.’s Pool Game

[This was originally posted on May 15, 2019, and was revised on May 18 to correct some factual errors brought to my attention by a colleague.] The pool game in Buster Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr. is one of the film’s many memorable sequences. For many years, one of the trick shots in the game was only

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Sherlock Jr – Video City: An actual shop

Posts about Sherlock Jr written by videocitylondon

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Full Movie Around 44minutes

He played pretty sporty.

 

[Poolhall60561]

I heard about those exploding pool balls.
Nice shooting on a pool table in 1924.
100 years ago..

 

[DeadStick]

That was higher-quality video than I was expecting, thanks for sharing. Yeah, he knew his way around a table. The cloth looked fairly fast, too.

Only annoyance was the mid-inning rearrangement of balls back into a cluster around the bomb ball.

 

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From Website Quora....Did Buster Keaton do his own trick billiards shots?


Raja Sarkar

Yes! He did perform the tricks in Sherlock Jr. (1924) all by himself. He practiced them for four months straight along with a pool expert and filmed it in a five day sitting. Once done, all the shots were pieced together to look like a continuous game of pool.

Phil Panzera

Yes. Note that he did have a stroke, so had obviously played more than a little bit. The magic of film is that you can try the shot twenty times until you make it, and the shots in Sherlock Jr. and The Electric House were nothing particularly difficult.

The second observation — since his face is clearly shown — is that it had to be him, as they obviously did not have the technology yet to switch faces (as they did when Schwarzenegger flew a jet in True Lies).

Did Buster Keaton do his own trick billiards shots?

Answer (1 of 2): Yes. Note that he did have a stroke, so had obviously played more than a little bit. The magic of film is that you can try the shot twenty times until you make it, and the shots in Sherlock Jr. and The Electric House were nothing particularly difficult. The second observation — ...

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The American actor Buster Keaton is learning billiards by the world champion Willi Hoppe