Buster Keaton on Film Making


	Buster Keaton on Film Making

fauxpress

1-31-2008 7:08 AM

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fauxpress says:

Lately, shooting movies has gotten very flexible, everybody's cutting their own stuff. Ideaflow is possible.

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