Actors'
Colony
at Bluffton
1908 - 1938
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Buster Keaton
and the
Muskegon Connection

Links to our favorite sites

Muskegon and West Michigan
 
Muskegon, A Lake Michigan Must
   
Buster Keaton CBC Archives CBC / Radio-Canada Archives
1964 Keaton interview with Telescope's Fletcher Markle, recounting his early years in vaudeville on through his days in film.  Watch the twinkle in his eyes as he recalls his days behind and in front of the camera.  Great stuff!
 
  Steamboat Willie
Walt Disney's third Mickey Mouse cartoon, released on November 18, 1928 and inspired by Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr. 
 
Keaton in "The Three Ages"

McCay emerges in his masterpiece,
"Gertie the Dinosaur"
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Winsor McCay
Meeting McCay
Spring Lake, MI was the childhood home to animation pioneer Winsor McCay - a mere 15 miles away from Bluffton.
"Even Buster Keaton paid homage to McCay, in his 1923 film The Three Ages. He asked his writer, Clyde Bruckman, 'Remember Gertie the Dinosaur? . . . The first cartoon comedy ever made. I saw it in a nickelodeon when I was fourteen. I'll ride in on an animated cartoon.' "

 "Before Mickey: The Animated Film"
by Donald Crafton
   
 
The Lake Michigan Park Theater
Muskegon's
Lake Michigan Park 
   
Bluffton Church Bluffton Church
3320 Thompson Ave
Muskegon, MI

Services - Sundays at 11am
Bluffton Church  
   
ahfest - Muskegon
Every October
Muskegon Area Arts & Humanities Festival
   
 
The Stage at the Frauenthal
Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts 
   

On your way to Bluffton
The Lakeside District
located between downtown Muskegon and Bluffton
   

The Harbor Theater in Lakeside
The Harbor Theater
1937 Lakeshore Dr
Muskegon MI

A non-profit
neighborhood theater

Please support it!
   
 
An Old Fashioned Candy Store
1930 Lakeshore Dr.
Muskegon, MI

Lakeside Emporium
Purveyors Of All Things Pleasant

 
   
Muskegon Area Sports Hall of Fame - Our Own Heroes and Legends 
On display at the L.C Walker Arena
Muskegon Area
Sports Hall of Fame
   
Scott
and
 Sue-Hiza Rosema's

Temujin Studio

   
Muskegon Big Red Marching Band 20078
The traditional Block 'M' of MHS 
Muskegon High School
Big Red Band 
   
  The Actors' Colony at Bluffton
1908 - 1938
Buster Keaton
and the
Muskegon Connection

 
Keaton and Friends
  The International
Buster Keaton Society
aka - The Damfinos
  BusterStuff.com
  David B. Pearson's
"Arbucklemania"
  Iola Keaton Celebration 
Buster Keaton at his studio, 1921.  John Bengtson's
Silent Echoes 
My Career at the Rear
Buster Keaton in
 World War I

by Martha R. Jett
  Understanding Film
by Ranjit Sandhu
  Juha's
Buster Keaton Page
  Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's
Vernon Tigers
  Ranjit Sandhu on
The General
Buster Keaton TV Listings 
Pepito the Spanish Clown 
Performed before
Charlie Chaplin's
 "The Circus"

 with
Samaroff and Sonia at
Sid Grauman's prologue
"Ballyhoo"
  Edwin "Poodles" Hanneford
also appeared on the bill
of
"Ballyhoo"
   
August and Everything After 
  Tim Lussier's
"Silents Are Golden" 
Marriage of the Minds by Dee Dwight Dwight Fine Arts