π¬π All aboard for laughs with Buster Keaton in Tars and Stripes (1935), a hilarious Educational Pictures short set in the U.S. Navy. Mixing military mayhem, slapstick stunts, and Keatonβs trademark stone-faced charm, this comedy shows how he kept his genius alive well into the sound era.
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β¨ About the Film: Keaton plays a hapless new Navy recruit who quickly finds himself at odds with strict officers and tangled up in comic misadventures aboard ship. Packed with clever routines, pratfalls, and inventive physical gags, Tars and Stripes remains a standout in Keatonβs run of Educational Pictures shorts during the 1930s.
01:36The worst he can do is a nosedive and break his neck
01:39Hey sailor, what's your paint?
02:08Doodler, found this gear
02:21The End
02:51Come here son, go get a rifle
03:02Aye, aye sir
03:04I'm going to make a sailor out of you or die in the attempt
03:17Right face, forward, march
03:20Halt, about face
03:26You call that about face
03:31Three paces forward
03:34Halt, now you're going to about face until you can do it in your sleep
03:40Start counting
03:41One
03:45Two
03:47Three
03:49Four
03:51Five
03:53Six
03:55Five
03:58Four
04:02Five
04:03Five
04:03Six
04:04Five
04:06Six
04:07Five
04:09Five
04:09Five
04:13Six
04:15Five
04:16Five
04:17Five
04:17Six
04:17Six
04:189,005, 9,006, 9,007, very well, fall out.
05:48Well, who let you out?
06:07I said I'm going to make a sailor out of you, and I'm going to if I die in the attempt.
06:17Now, you listen to me.
06:18When I give orders around here, you want to snap in for them.
06:20Do you hear?
06:21How many knots can you make?
06:24Knots?
06:25Knots, yes.
06:26Oh, I can do 100 yards in 15 seconds.
06:29I'm not talking about speed.
06:31I'm talking about knots.
06:33Knots.
06:33Bins.
06:34How many bends can you make?
06:36Oh, not those kind of bends.
06:41Garrick bends.
06:43Fisherman bends.
06:48All right, sailor.
06:49Over there.
06:51Now?
06:51Certainly.
07:06All right, come on, now, snap into it.
07:08All right, you guys, now, get into that.
07:10Check it, squad.
07:15I'm now going to show you how to make a bone on a bite.
07:19First, take a bite.
07:21Hey, what are you trying to do over here?
07:23Here, I'll show you.
07:25This is a bite.
07:27You take the end.
07:28Put it underneath.
07:30And over the top.
07:31And then haul it taut.
07:32All right.
07:54Here, I'll show you how to make a bone on a bite.
08:24Here, I'll show you how to make a bone on a bite.
08:54Here, I'll show you how to make a bone on a bite.
08:58Now, you promise never to be jealous again?
09:01I do.
09:02Don't be long, dear.
09:03I'll be with you in a minute.
09:05Meet me outside of the mess hall.
09:07Okie dokie.
09:10Oh.
09:11I'll be with you in a minute.
09:27I'll be with you in a minute.
09:39Oh you promised you'd never be jealous again. Don't you want me to kill him for what he
10:01tried to do. He only tried to put the heel back on my shoe. Oh yeah. All right sailor.
10:09What are you going to do to him. Just give him something to do to keep out a mischief. When I get
10:19back I'll find you get going.
10:39What are you going to do to him.
10:45What are you going to do to him.
10:49What are you going to do to him.
10:54What are you going to do to him.
10:58What are you going to do to him.
11:03What are you going to do to him.
11:07What are you going to do to him.
11:16What are you going to do to him.
11:23What are you going to do to him.
11:27What are you going to do to him.
11:31What are you going to do to him.
11:47Four's foul. Get a rammer. Let me see some action.
12:17Now certainly. Always making heavy weather for yourself. The more things are going to be different. I'll tie knots. I'll be a sailor. I'll I'm going to steer a
12:47ship too. That's the spirit. Right shoulder. Right shoulder. Right. Right shoulder. Right.
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