Sherlock Junior

Buster Keaton 1926

The film is based on the idea of a cinema projectionist who falls asleep at the wheel and dreams he has become involved in the plot of the film he is projecting. The film contains a remarkable ‘play within a play’ where Keaton walks into the cinema screen

and suffers the consequences as the location of the shots switches rapidly from one to another. This single scene gained the film a cult following among members of the cinema profession who saw it time and time again to try and figure out how Keaton had filmed this. (44 minutes)

Score by Paul Robinson commissioned by the Cambridge Film Festival. 35mm

Fritz Lang (1921)

Buster Keaton (1926)

Alfred Hitchcock (1926)

F W Murnau (1922)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928)

Jean Cocteau (1932)

Frank Borzage (1927)

Buster Keaton (1926)

Buster Keaton (1927)

Arthur Robison (1923)

René Clair (1925)

Buster Keaton (1920)

René Clair (1924)

Vsevolod Pudovkin (1925)