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The Scarecrow (1920)

Name: The Scarecrow
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1920
Duration: 19 min

192019 minComedy✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

The Scarecrow (1920) is a 19-minute comedy short 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

The Scarecrow is a 1920 American two-reel silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton, and written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline.

Buster plays a farmhand who competes with his housemate (Roberts) to win the love of the farmer's daughter (Sybil Seely). Running from a dog that he believes is rabid, he races around brick walls, jumps through windows, and falls into a hay thresher that rips off most of his clothes. After Sybil’s father sees him in this compromising position, he is forced to flee and borrow a scarecrow's clothes in a nearby field as a disguise. After he escapes, he runs into Sybil and trips into a kneeling position while tying his shoes which Sybil interprets as a proposal.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Scarecrow (1920 film) (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

About The Scarecrow (1920)

The Scarecrow is a 1920 American two-reel silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton, and written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline.

Quick facts

Year: 1920
Runtime: 19 minutes
Type: Short film · Comedy
Credits (Internet Archive record): Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Sound: Silent film with a CC0 piano score

From the Wikipedia article on The Scarecrow (1920 film) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Airs on

Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1920 (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 short.
Source: Internet Archive

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