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One Week
1920 · Film · short · 25 min
Directed by Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.
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Buster Keaton's short film "One Week" is based around a kit house of this sort. Like a lot of silent era comedy, it's still pretty damn funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q0FMxZBmO4
I got to thinking about silent movies, like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. I don't think I ever saw another treatment of home ownership quite so apropos as:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Week_(1920_film)
It expertly treated its subject matter with great humor--sans verbal language (interstitials aside).
As in Buster Keaton's "One Week", which also features one of the greatest and most enviable marriages in all of cinema.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd6ddOlbKp8
Excellent article. "One week" is my favourite silent movie of all time.