In Reply to: Buster Keatons "The Railrodder", anyone seen it? posted by tcain on July 19, 2004 at 10:56:50:
A family that used to live across the street from me had a very young daughter...not much older than 1...who could not even speak much at that point beyond "mama" and "dada". But she loved trains, loved seeing them, loved hearing them, absolutely fascinated by trains (as my father was a railroad engineer she had opportunity to experience them very closely!). One day her mother and she came by when I began to watch Keaton's "The General". She sat across from me in the room, totally transfixed, for the hour-plus running time. That film never had a better audience than that small child who loved everything Keaton did with the trains.A child that could not even say a phrase yet sat mesmerized by Keaton's magic.
And I thought I was a fan! I couldn't compare with that!
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