One week house spinning 1920

• The idea came from a Ford Motors documentary Home Made ( 1919)

  about pre-fabricated homes.
• Functional editing- realism


  Used to advance the plot not have an effect

  eg cut to close of a new character
• Stereotypical American housewife- realism


  Keatons wife costume, performance, breaks him breakfast
• Realistic stunts


  Done by Keaton himself rather than relying on special effects

  eg falling off ladder and wifes performance enhances realism
• First depiction of breaking 4th wall- expressionism

  Sybil looks at camera and is covered by a hand

  cheeky
• Exaggerated mise en scene- expressionism

  emphasise badly built house

  eg when the house starts spinning
• Buster walking inside with umbrella as it is raining

  Goes outside and house starts turning behind him doesn't realise

  dramatic irony
• Futile attempts to stop it spinning- emphasises busters height- little man trait


  Under ranking to make house spin faster
• Fixed long shot of house spinning and buster trying to stop it

  Crosscut with People in house running in a circle like they  are being spun
• Had to be done in one take

  Impossible gag
• Buster and wife sit down defeated while house spins behind

  stone face
• Iris transition to next day

  Editing