THE VIDEO SHELF · visual comedy in film
Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag
An Every Frame a Painting video essay on Buster Keaton's visual comedy, examining how he built and framed his gags. It uses clips from his silent films to show the thinking behind them.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a short, excellent analysis of Keaton and visual comedy.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Every Frame a Painting
- Topic
- visual comedy in film
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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The Every Frame a Painting channel on YouTube has an excellent short piece on Buster Keaton covering some similar themes, but with more of a focus on camera frames than architecture: [VIDEO]
scott_s on Hacker News · 2019-04
In Buster Keaton: AnarchitectReminds me of some of the videos from Every Frame a Painting about visual comedy in film. Specifically "Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy" [1] and "Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag" [2]. They give and explain some great examples from …
mimimi31 on Hacker News · 2022-07
In Rowan Atkinson: Visual Comedy (1992) [video]Video of some of his better stunts: [LINK] And a great Every Frame a Painting film essay on his work: [VIDEO] He was truly an innovator that makes today’s “films of people talking to each other” look amateurish. A few months ago the local theatre …
keiferski on Hacker News · 2025-01
In How did they make cars fall apart in old movies (2017)
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