Was Monty Pythons Flying Circus "It's" Intro a Tribute to Buster Keaton?

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[Rjel]

This tribute from Turner Classic Movies has some great clips from Keaton's films. An amazing comic.

 

 

Edited March 25, 2020 by Rjel

[AndyJWest]

Was Buster Keaton's emergence from the sea in The Railrodder (1965) a tribute to Ursula Andress doing the same thing in Dr No (1962)? ?

 

Seriously though, I'm sure the Python team were influenced by silent film, along with many other things: if I had to pick a single influence of most importance, I'd go with The Goon Show (a BBC radio show which ran from 1951 to 1960), and with Spike Milligan's surreal humour and sense of the absurd in particular. 

 

 

[CanadaOne]

I always thought Monty Python was influenced by Aristophanes.