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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

Name: Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1928
Duration: 1 h 10 min

192870 minComedy✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) is a 70-minute comedy film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain.

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Synopsis

Steamboat Bill, Jr. is a 1928 American silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton. Released by United Artists, the film is the final product of Keaton's independent production team and set of gag writers.

William "Steamboat Bill" Canfield is the owner and captain of a paddle steamer, the Stonewall Jackson, that has seen better days. The King, a new steamer owned by the rich J.J. King, threatens to steal his customers. Canfield receives a telegram saying his son is arriving on the 10 am train, having finished his studies in Boston. Canfield has not seen him for many years. King's daughter Kitty arrives home from college to visit him.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Steamboat Bill, Jr. (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

About Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

Quick facts

Year: 1928
Runtime: 70 minutes
Type: Film · Comedy
Credits (Internet Archive record): Buster Keaton
Sound: Silent film with a CC0 piano score

From the Wikipedia article on Steamboat Bill, Jr. (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1928 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Keaton silent.
Source: Internet Archive

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