The latest issue of The New Yorker (August 19, 2024), is an all-reprint humor issue. Among the articles is a salute to Buster Keaton, including an interview, from April 27, 1963, by famed journalist Brendan Gill, who wrote for the magazine for 60 years, along with Film Comment and other publications.
Anyhow, Gill mentions the one and only Raymond Rohauer when discussing Keaton's very rare THE BUTCHER BOY from 1917:
"Keaton was twenty-two when he made THE BUTCHER BOY. It's a lucky accident that the movie still exists, because in 1922, after [Fatty] Arbuckle stood trial for having caused the death of a girl at a drunken party (in the end, he was acquitted), Will H. Hays, the newly appointed 'czar' of the movie industry, ruled that the positives and negatives of all Arbuckle films should be destroyed.
"The only surviving print of THE BUTCHER BOY was recently discovered, in Europe, by Raymond Rohauer, who has devoted himself for some years to collecting old Keaton pictures, and who is now overseeing a very successful revival of them abroad." For those wondering why this is of note (if it is), here at the CHFB there is much antipathy to the way Rohauer hoarded much of his collection in later years. So much so that when the CHFB censors "bad" words, f--- is replaced by "Rohauer".
Too soon?
david
Anyhow, Gill mentions the one and only Raymond Rohauer when discussing Keaton's very rare THE BUTCHER BOY from 1917:
"Keaton was twenty-two when he made THE BUTCHER BOY. It's a lucky accident that the movie still exists, because in 1922, after [Fatty] Arbuckle stood trial for having caused the death of a girl at a drunken party (in the end, he was acquitted), Will H. Hays, the newly appointed 'czar' of the movie industry, ruled that the positives and negatives of all Arbuckle films should be destroyed.
"The only surviving print of THE BUTCHER BOY was recently discovered, in Europe, by Raymond Rohauer, who has devoted himself for some years to collecting old Keaton pictures, and who is now overseeing a very successful revival of them abroad."
Too soon?
david
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