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Programme 03 · The Silent Room
The General
Directed by Buster Keaton
A Southern railway engineer chases his stolen locomotive—and the woman he loves—through a war he barely notices. The train does most of the acting.
Screening note
A clockwork comedy. Every gag is engineered, every near-miss is real, and the whole thing moves like a machine with a heartbeat.
ComedyAction
“The most beautiful machine in silent comedy.”
Public-domain cinema. This prototype does not host or stream the film. A production build would resolve playback through a licensed, region-aware provider.
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