Alternate versions for
The Play House (1921) More at IMDbPro »

• The 35mm print currently (2006) available for theatrical exhibition is slightly different from the DVD version:
  • - There is a British Board of Film Censors approval title and an extra title mentioning the Raymond Rohauer collection.
  • - The inter-titles are in a different font but contain the same text as the DVD version.
  • - The "Written and Directed by" title credits Buster Keaton solely.
  • - There is an out-of-sequence edit in the print. The scene where the Zouave guards walk out and Buster replaces them with street workers comes immediately after the sequence where Buster meets the twins. It begins right as the Zouave chief comes under the stage backdrop and confront Joe Roberts. The scene plays to the fadeout and then immediately cuts to the beginning of the monkey scene. At the end of the monkey scene, the backdrop confrontation begins and abruptly cuts right where it left off earlier in the film.
  
  
  
• The version shown on the American Movie Classics channel was copyrighted in 1995 by Film Preservation Associates and had a music soundtrack arranged by Robert Israel. It ran 23 minutes.
  
  
• A special 16mm edition was made available in 2002 which restores the film's original title cards, corrects a sequence error within the "monkey scene" and sports a new synchronized music track by The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra.
  
  

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