[Cm-crew] Buster Keaton ciclista

Chi riesce a trovarmi, nel Web o anche fuori, qualche
immagine ciclistica di Buster Keaton? chiedo soccorso!


Ho pescato soltanto un manfesto sovietico del 1929 (un
collage futurista?) da:
http://www.vintagearte.com/images/productImagesSm/0000-0672.jpg

qui di sotto: Buster che pedala, nel ruolo di McKay,
nel film "Our Hospitality"
(non mi ricordo dove più dove l'ho preso)
Demonstrating Keaton's fondness for unusual machines,
however, the bicycle McKay rides is not just any
bicycle, but a contraption of the highest order.
Modeled on the Gentleman's Hobbyhorse (Blesh 226), one
of the earliest known bicycles, McKay's vehicle
immediately strikes ones as being absurdly awkward to
ride. Minus anything resembling a seat and without
pedals, the bicycle's handlebars are more like metal
reins. The metal bar that crosses McKay's abdomen
seems designed simply to give him something to lean
against. As McKay begins to ride, it becomes apparent
that in order to propel himself forward, he must swing
his legs back and forth, as if he is riding on a
swing. It is not a graceful vehicle to ride; it is
difficult to steer and certainly uncomfortable.
Nevertheless, McKay maintains his façade of elegance.
His entire frame seems permeated with a sense of
serenity untouched by his surroundings. He is proud of
his bicycle and, in his mind, all as is as it should
be, even if he does look like a fool with his swinging
legs and his wobbly bicycle. Glancing about himself
nonchalantly, he is apparently not in a hurry. It is
conceivable that this character has never been in a
hurry. His life in New York has been quiet, peaceful,
perhaps even unexceptional - a far cry from the life
he would have lived if he had remained in the
mountains where he was born... Riding in his fine
clothes on his comically inelegant bicycle, McKay is a
gentle, fastidious creature who has lived a coddled
existence until this moment.

Federigo Garcia Lorca canta il ciclismo di Keaton
http://www.geocities.com/princessrajah/bkwalk.html
The countryside grows smaller under the wheels of his
bicycle. The machine takes on a single dimension. It
could enter a book, stretch out in a bake oven. Buster
Keaton's bicycle hasn't a caramel saddle and pedals of
sugar, of the sort that wicked men might wish for. It
is a bicycle like any other, except that it is the
only one that's permeated with innocence. Adam and Eve
would run in terror if they saw a glass of water, but
on the other hand they would stroke Keaton's bicycle.

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