SAT AUG 15, 2026 3:00 PM Buster Keaton Shorts Block $12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission) Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee. Aero Theatre | 105th Anniversary of “The Haunted House,” “The High Sign” and “The Goat” ‘Summer Busterblocks’
ABOUT THE FILMS: “The Balloonatic”, 1923, Dir. Buster Keaton, 22 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA Buster rises to new heights as he sails heavenward in a balloon. He bumps into clouds and, in trying to bring down a duck, punctures the gas bag and crashes in the woods where he saves Phyllis Haver from a bear and falls in love. His courtship and the balloonatic events that follow are hilarious. FORMAT: DCP “Cops”, 1922, Dir. Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, 18 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA A carefully orchestrated series of gags in which Buster plays an innocent who tries to impress his girl by becoming more than he is, and winds up inextricably caught in a police parade that breaks up to pursue him. FORMAT: DCP “The Haunted House”, 1921, Dir. Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, 20 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA Bank teller Buster spills glue on his money, gets himself accused of robbery and winds up in a haunted house full of spooky devices. FORMAT: DCP “The High Sign”, 1921, Dir. Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, 19 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA Buster plays a contract-killer who must murder the town miser, August Nickelnurser. But Nickelnurser knows a good man when he sees one and hires Buster as his bodyguard. FORMAT: DCP “The Goat”, 1921, Dir. Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair, 23 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA A mistaken-identity crisis precipitates an almost continuous – and continuously brilliant chase through two adjoining towns where Buster is taken for ‘Deadeye Dan, Public Enemy’.” FORMAT: DCP