Author Archive: Retro

Buster bids farewell to his girlfriend and sets out on a small boat. Later, without any food or water, he is taken on board the Love Nest, managed by a despotic captain. Making his escape, he encounters a large flotation device which he does not recognize as a target for nautical maneuvers. It is blown to smithereens. Suddenly Buster realizes that it was all a dream and to his consternation, discovers that his small boat has never left dock.

When a large Irish woman falsely accuses Buster of breaking a window he is hauled before a Polish judge who speaks no English and assumes they are there to be married. She takes her new husband home to meet her four gorilla-like brothers.

Evil oil barons have given the Indians one day to vacate their land. The Indian chief tells his braves to kill the first white man they see. Buster shows up chasing a butterfly. Later he keeps moving the stake to which he is tied and at which he is to be burned. He becomes one of the tribe and helps them with their fight. Pretty good short comedy. The Indians are portrayed in an occasionally silly but definitely sympathetic light.

The funniest truckin’ you’ve ever seen!

Buster’s handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. At the harbor he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. The rest is a series of adventures he and his family have with the restored boat. This funny short has some good subtle gags plus the usual slapstick and gadgets.

Newlyweds attempt to build a prefabricated house with disastrous and comic results.