While rising from bit player to writer, director and star of comedies for the Keystone Film Company, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle recruited up-and-coming vaudeville comic Buster Keaton for a series of films from 1917 through 1919. Gathered from international archives and private collections and presented chronologically, these shorts demonstrate Keaton's evolution from bit player to full partner as both men honed their comedic skills.