The Toy Machine. Buster Keaton. The Blacksmith

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The Toy Machine

Buster Keaton

The Blacksmith

Gilles Deleuze

Cinema 1

Cinéma 1

Ch X. The Action-Image: The Small Form

Ch X. L'image-action : La petite forme

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The Paradox of Keaton the Minoring and Recurrent Functions of the Great Machines

Le paradoxe de Keaton : la fonction minorante et récurrente des grandes machines

Keaton sometimes passes directly from the great, real machine to its reproduction as toy, for example, at the end of The Blacksmith. [Deleuze, Cinema 1, 1986: 180c]

Il arrive à Keaton de passer directement de la grande machine réelle à sa reproduction comme jouet, par exemple à la fin de « Malec forgeron ». [Deleuze Cinéma 1, 1985: 241a]

[Clip should play, even though the screen is blank until the button is pressed.]

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image.Transl. Hugh Tomlinson & Barbara Habberjam, London: Continuum, 1986

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinéma 1: L'image-mouvement. Paris: Les éditions de minuit, 1983.