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Steamboat Bill, Jr

Ripper......: VH-PROD         Length.........: 71 min.
Source......: DVD             Aspect Ratio...: 1.33:1
Type........: XviD            Resolution.....: 512x384
Disks.......: [x]1CD [ ]2CD
Rars........: 50x15MB         Video Bitrate..: 1294 kb/s
Video Framerate: 23.976
VH-PROD Rls.: 11/25/03        Audio Bitrate..: 80 kb/s
DVD Release.: 10/26/99        Audio Language.: Silent
Theater Date: 05/20/28        Stream Type....: [x]Mp3 [ ]Ac3
Channels.......: [ ]Stereo
IMDB Rating.: 7.9/10                           [x]Mono
IMDB Votes..: 699
Genre.......: [ ] Action      Subtitles......: [ ] English
[x] Comedy   [ ] Drama        [ ] French      [ ] Spanish
[x] Romance  [x] Family       [ ] Chinese     [ ] Japanese
Sci-Fi   [ ] Musical      [ ] Thai        [ ] Hindi
Horror   [ ] Fantasy      [ ] German      [ ] Dutch
War      [ ] Crime        [ ] Portuguese  [x] None
Documentary

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019421/

P L O T

Willie is the effete son of riverboat captain
"Steamboat Bill" coming to see his dad after years of
separation. Bill tries to turn his son into a man.
When his father is arrested, Willie decides to get him
out of jail.

C A S T

Buster Keaton ......  William Canfield Jr.
Tom McGuire .......  John James King
Ernest Torrence ....  William Canfield Sr
Tom Lewis ...........  Tom Carter (the sailor)
Marion Byron ........  Marion King

R E L E A S E  N O T E S

The stunt where the wall falls on Buster Keaton was
performed with an actual full-weight wall. Half the crew
walked off the set rather than participate in a stunt
that would have killed Keaton if he had been slightly off
position.

The hat that Keaton quickly removes from his head and
hands back to the clerk with a frown is Keaton's own
trademark porkpie hat.

The movie was originally meant to incorporate a large
flood as the disaster that hits the town. However, due to
a real Mississippi flood and bickering amongst the
producers, the flood plot was changed to a "cyclone."

This movie was used as a model for Steamboat Willie (1928),
the very first appearence of Mickey Mouse.

Notes:

Even though this IS a "Silent", the correct frame rate was
determined to be 24 frames per second.

Please refer to:

http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s1012keaton.html

Also, .wav analysis shows that the audio is 2 channel mono.