A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Electric House
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Two reels / 2231 feet
Directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline (Edward F. Cline)

Cast: Buster Keaton [Buster, a college graduate], Virginia Fox [the dean’s daughter], Joe Roberts [the dean], Steve Murphy [a fellow graduate, the real electrical engineer], Joe Keaton [Buster’s father in the prologue], Myra Keaton [Buster’s mother in the prologue], Louise Keaton [Buster’s sister in the prologue], [?] ? [the dean’s wife], [?] ? [the dean’s butler], [?] ? [the dean’s cook], [?] ? [a fellow graduate, between Buster and Steve]

Buster Keaton Productions, Incorporated, production; distributed by Associated First National Pictures, Incorporated [A First National Picture]. / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Scenario by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline (Edward F. Cline). Technical direction by Fred Gabourie. Cinematography by Elgin Lessley. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / © 19 October 1922 by Buster Keaton Productions, Incorporated [LP18329]. Released October 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / One of ten films under a distribution contract with First National.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the film holdings of Cohen Media Group (Raymond Rohauer collection) [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 20 September 2023.

References: Film viewing : Bardèche-History p. 213; Dardis-Keaton pp. 72, 289 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.