The Balloonatic
About The Balloonatic
Buster Keaton, in an amusement park, climbs onto a gas balloon to fix a pennant. The balloon takes off with only him aboard and comes down in the wild. He meets an outdoorswoman (Phyllis Haver). They try to outdo each other. The balloon later keeps their canoe from going over a waterfall.
Cast & crew
More about The Balloonatic
Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline wrote and directed it. Joseph M. Schenck produced. Elgin Lessley photographed it. First National Pictures distributed it. Released on 22 January 1923. One of Keaton's last shorts.
Themes
Background
A January 1923 Keaton-Cline short, near the end of Keaton's two-reel series.
Preservation
Prints are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The opening is an amusement area of the Coney Island kind.
- Babe London, uncredited, plays a fat girl at the House of Trouble.
Scenes
- He is on top of the balloon when it lifts.
- The balloon holds the canoe back from the falls.
Also available
- Internet Archive (TheBalloonatic)
- Wikimedia Commons (The Balloonatic (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, 1923).webm)
