Buster Keaton's Impact

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The significance of Buster Keaton's view on technology left audiences and himself fascinated and pioneered with the movie technologies, and special effects. Two of Buster Keaton's films “Sherlock Jr“ and “ Steamboat Bill Jr” both use fantastic uses of special effects. For instance, Buster Keaton screened a movie within his movie which back then probably took a lot of technology to edit that into the screen in the movie “ Sherlock Jr”. Furthermore, another one of Keaton's great examples of using technology is when he used the special matte box in front of the camera lense to display nine projections of himself, playing nine different roles in the film “ The Playhouse”. In most of Keaton's films also he uses real vehicles such as trains, cars,

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