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Three Ages (1923)

Name: Three Ages
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1923
Duration: 1 h 3 min
Cast: Buster Keaton, Wallace Beery, Lionel Belmore, Joe Roberts, Margaret Leahy

192363 minComedy✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

Three Ages (1923) is a 63-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. Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline.

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About Three Ages (1923)

Three Ages is a 1923 black-and-white American feature-length silent comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery. The first feature Keaton wrote, directed, produced, and starred in (unlike The Saphead, in which he only acted), Keaton structured the film like three inter-cut short films.

Three plots in three different historical periods — prehistoric times, ancient Rome, and the Roaring Twenties — are intercut to prove the point that man's love for woman has not significantly changed throughout history. In all three plots, "The Boy", played by the small and slight Buster Keaton and "The Villain", Wallace Beery, compete for the attention of "The Girl", played by Margaret Leahy. Each plot follows similar "arcs" in the storyline in which the Boy works for his beloved's attention and eventually wins her over.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Three Ages (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast includes: Buster Keaton, Wallace Beery, Lionel Belmore, Joe Roberts, Margaret Leahy, Blanche Payson, Kewpie Morgan, Lillian Lawrence
Country: United States
Based on: Intolerance

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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 1923 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
Music: Silent copy with no audio track; CC0 piano bed is played.
Underlying rights: Keaton silent.
Source: Internet Archive

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