Daydreams
- Synopsis
- Feature short. A young man (Keaton) seeks to prove to his sweetheart’s father that he financially sound. He writes letters from the city about the various jobs he has secured. His sweetheart imagines that he is more successful than he is and when he writes that he has a job in the theatre she imagines that he is playing Hamlet - Keaton is dressed in a black doublet and hose and carries a skull. He bows before an applauding audience.
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Silent
- Year of release
- 1922
- Duration
- 19 mins
Credits
- Director
- Buster Keaton; Edward F. Cline
- Producer
- Joseph M. Schenck
- Cinematographer
- Elgin Lessley
- Screenplay
- Buster Keaton; Edward F. Cline
- Cast
Buster Keaton The Young man (Hamlet) Edward F. Cline Theatre director Joe Keaton The Girl’s father (uncredited) Renee Adoree The Girl
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Hamlet
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- The copies held by UCLA and the Library of Congress are the restored version.
- General
- All existing prints are believed to be incomplete.
- History
- David Shepard’s 1995 restoration assembled by combining domestic and foreign versions, as well as using materials from the Czech film archive, with new titles by Lukas Havorka and Jeffrey Vance, and with a music track by Robert Israel at the Fotoplayer is available on videodisc. Available from amazon.com in the compilation THE ART OF BUSTER KEATON. VOL.3
Production Company
- Name
First National
- Address
- USA
Archive
- Name
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division
- Web
- http://catalog.loc.gov/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- (20) 707-8572
- Fax
- (20) 707-237’1
- Address
- Motion Picture & Television Reading Room
James Madison Building, LM 336
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C.
20540-4690
United States
- Name
UCLA Film & Television Archive
- arsc@ucla.edu
- Web
- http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/access/databases.html External site opens in new window
- Phone
- (310) 206 5388
- Fax
- (310) 206 5392
- Address
- Individual Access
Archive Study and Research Center
46 Powell Library
302 East Melnitz
Los Angeles
CA90095-1323
USA
Online Retailer
- Name
amazon.com
- Web
- http://www.amazon.com External site opens in new window
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Daydreams". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av68558 (Accessed 19 Sep 2024)