Keaton Celebration poster by J. Tibbetts
Celebration Web Archives:
 Keaton was born near Iola, KS at Piqua in 1895
Visit Iola's official Keaton Celebration site.
Visit the Buster Keaton Museum, Piqua, Kansas
Visit International Buster Keaton Society.
This event is funded by the Kansas Humanities Council, with help from the Iola Tourism Fund and private donors.
Sponsored by the Keaton Celebration Committee in cooperation with the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.
Also check the Kansas Silent Film Festival web site. KSFF is held each February in Topeka, KS.
Photo archive & photo collage
©2009 by Carol Yoho |
2009 Schedule:
The Iola web site
NOTE: This schedule is subject to change.
FRI., Sept. 25, 2009
A.M.: 8:00 |
Pilgrimage to Piqua: Interested parties please meet Amy Specht and David Macleod outside the Bowlus. |
9:30 |
Registration opens at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Auditorium Lobby (no fees) |
9:50 |
Welcome and Remarks by Susan Raines, Executive Director, Bowlus Fine Arts Center, and Frank Scheide, Master of Ceremonies |
10:00 |
Sunflower Journeys: Video Segment on WWI Museum (10 min.) |
10:10 |
“World War I: Causes & Effects,” by David Murray |
10:50 |
Q & A |
11:00 |
Break |
11:10 |
“Lights, Camera, and REAL Action: The U.S. Army Signal Corps Motion Picture and Still Photographers' Work, 1917-1919,” by Doran Cart |
11:50 |
Q & A |
P.M.: Noon |
Lunch Break |
1:30 |
“The Worm's Eye View: A Presentation concerning the 1919 film, Yankee Doodle in Berlin,” by John Tibbetts |
2:10 |
Q & A |
2:20 |
“Tommy's New Tune: Warner Brothers' The Better 'Ole (1926) and Redefining American Patriotism,” by Lisa K. Stein |
3:00 |
Q & A |
3:10 |
Break |
3:25 |
Screening of The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War (1975) and War Story (2001), introduced by David Shepard |
5:20 |
Q & A |
5:30 |
Dinner Break |
7:30 |
Fri. evening screenings:
It Happended to You
Shoulder Arms (1918) with Charlie Chaplin
The Bond* (1918) with Charlie Chaplin |
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Intermission |
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All Night Long*, 1924, with Harry Langdon
The Bellboy*, 1918, Arbuckle & Keaton |
*with live musical accompaniment by Marvin Faulwell, organist/pianist
SAT., Sept. 26, 2009
A.M.: 8:30 |
Registration opens at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Auditorium Lobby (no fees) |
9:00 |
Welcome and Remarks by Susan Raines, Executive Director, Bowlus Fine Arts Center, and Bill Shaffer, Master of Ceremonies |
9:20 |
“Educational Opportunities at the National W.W. I Museum,” by Jim Barkley |
9:40 |
My Career at the Rear (Documentary on Buster Keaton's WWI military career by Martha Jett) |
10:00 |
“Buster and War,” by David Macleod |
10:40 |
Q & A |
10:50 |
Break |
11:00 |
WWI Films: The Liberty Loan Drive, Newsreels and Slapstick Comics Go to War: Screening of Seldom Seen Footage (plus rare Keaton on video), introduced by Robert Arkus |
P.M.: Noon |
Lunch Break |
1:00 |
Welcome and Introduction by John Tibbets , Master of Ceremonies |
1:10 |
“Buser Keaton Fights the Great War,” by Leslie Midkiff DeBauche |
1:50 |
Q & A |
2:00 |
“Charles & Penny Chilton's Oh! What a Lovely War!,” by Frank Scheide |
2:40 |
Q & A |
2:50 |
Break |
3:00 |
Screening of Yankee Doodle in Berlin* (1919) by Mack Sennett, introduced by David Shepard |
4:00 |
Break |
4:10 |
Screening of Doughboys (1933 sound feature) with Buster Keaton |
5:35 |
Dinner Break |
7:30 |
Sat. evening screenings:
General Nuisance (1941) Columbia sound short with Buster Keaton
Short clips and tributes
Special Presentation: The Last American Surviving WWI Veteran, a 2008 interview with Mr. Frank Buckles by Martha Jett |
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Intermission |
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The Better 'Ole* (1926) with Syd Chaplin |
*with live musical accompaniment by Marvin Faulwell, organist/pianist
Speakers, Hosts, Performers:
- Robert Arkus, Film Historian & Collector, Flushing, NY
- John Barkley, National World War I Museum, Kansas City, MO
- Doran Cart, Curator, WWI Museum, Kansas City, MO
- Leslie Midkiff DeBauche, PhD, University Wisconsin-Stevens Point
- Marvin Faulwell, Accomplished theatre organist, Lee's Summit, MO
- David Macleod, Keaton historian and co-founder of the Blinking Buzzards Buster Keaton Appreciation Society in the United Kingdom
- David Murray, WWI historian, Topeka, KS
- Susan Raines, Executive Directory of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, Iola, KS
- Frank Scheide, PhD, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
- Bill Shaffer, Producer/Director, KTWU PBS TV, Topeka, KS
- David Shepard, Film Preservationist, Los Angeles, CA
- Lisa K. Stein , PhD, Ohio University-Zanesville
- John Tibbetts, PhD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
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