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The Scribe is a 1966 short comedy film directed by John Sebert and produced by the Construction Safety Association of Ontario, Canada. It demonstrates the do’s and don’ts of construction site safety.
The film is the last professionally filmed footage of film legend Buster Keaton shot months before his death from lung cancer on February 1 1966. He recreates several routines from his youth, as well as some new material for the film. Most notable was his recreation of a gag from his 1918 film The Bell Boy in which he mops the floor using only the tip of the mop, little by little while sitting on the floor.
Keaton reportedly was taken to the set in a wheelchair, using an oxygen tank to breathe.
From an article by Eric Vielette:
In 1966, Keaton came to Toronto for The Scribe, an industrial short for the Construction Safety Association of Ontario. Helming the project was John Sebert, noted photographer and author of The Nabes, a book about Toronto movie-houses, including The Revue. As a first-time director, Sebert was in awe of Keaton. Unlike the suits at MGM, he let the great Stone-Face loose: “You didn’t direct Buster too much,” he said to Marion Meade in her biography of Keaton.
Although 70 years old at the time, Keaton still performed his own stunts, although they relied more on timing than physical strength.
Sebert was also shocked to see Keaton smoking multiple packs of cigarettes per day. “He always had a cigarette in his hand,” he told Meade. “Then he’d go into these coughing fits that lasted four or five minutes. The racking that poor guy went through was terrible.”
The Scribe.1966.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv
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Container: Matroska
Runtime: 29 min 29 s
Size: 575 MiB
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Codec: x264
Resolution: 768x576
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 2 500 kb/s
BPP: 0.236
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#1: English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s
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