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* BudgetBustingElement: The film's total budget was $750,000 (in 1926), of which approximately $42,000 was spent on a fifteen second-long shot of a train crashing from a burning bridge into a river. It was the single most expensive shot in silent movie history. This was because it was a genuine train being crashed into the river and had six cameras filming at once to insure they caught it, because they could only do the stunt once (the wreckage remained submerged until it was salvaged for scrap in World War II).
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* DoingItForTheArt: More than one example; the production actually [[OneTakeWonder crashed the train]] at the end, while one of the gags with the cannon required Keaton to measure out the black powder charge with tweezers.
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* ActingForTwo: For the scenes with the opposing armies marching, Buster Keaton had the extras (which included 500 members of Oregon National Guard) wear the gray uniforms of the Confederacy and march in one direction past the camera. After that, he had them change uniforms to the Union blues and had them march past the camera in the other direction.
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** Several National Guardsmen, who were employed as extras for the Civil War battle scenes, were injured by mishaps caused by misfired muskets or explosions.
** Creator/BusterKeaton was knocked unconscious when he stood too close to a cannon firing. Assistant director Harry Barnes was accidentally hit in the face by a blank charge.
** Train brakeman Fred Lowry sued the production for US$2,900 after his foot was crushed when it was run over by a locomotive wheel during filming of one of the railway scenes.
** Several National Guardsmen, who were employed as extras for the Civil War battle scenes, were injured by mishaps caused by misfired muskets or explosions.
** Creator/BusterKeaton was knocked unconscious when he stood too close to a cannon firing. Assistant director Harry Barnes was accidentally hit in the face by a blank charge.
** Train brakeman Fred Lowry sued the production for US$2,900 after his foot was crushed when it was run over by a locomotive wheel during filming of one of the railway scenes.
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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/BusterKeaton grew his hair long for this film to match the men's hair of the time as seen in many Confederate soldier photographs.
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* NoStuntDouble: As usual, Buster Keaton did all his own stunts in this film, a lot of which were obviously quite dangerous. One in particular is when he has to throw the railroad tie to hit another to knock if off the track. If he had missed, the locomotive could have derailed and killed him.
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* RealLifeRelative: Creator/BusterKeaton's father Joe appears as a Union General.
* WorkingTitle: ''The Engine Driver''.
* WorkingTitle: ''The Engine Driver''.
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* InspirationForTheWork: Keaton was inspired by William Pittenger's 1863 memoir ''The Great Locomotive Chase'', about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase]].
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Oregon, actually, standing in for Georgia and Tennessee.
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