One Week
1920 · 24 min · Comedy · Silent · Short
A newly married couple are given a build-it-yourself house, assemble it by the numbers on the boxes, and end up with two storeys twisted round each other and a roof that never finds level. Buster Keaton's comedy, directed by Keaton and Eddie Cline.
This film has an audio description track, written and recorded here, so a blind or low-vision viewer can follow it by ear. There is nothing to switch on — the description is in the film’s own sound, so pressing play is the whole of it.
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This is our restoration, with the audio description track mixed in. There is nothing to switch on: press play and the description is in the sound. It is free, there is no account, and nothing is counted.
Sound only — 43 MB rather than 474 MB. Everything the described master says, without the picture.
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The same film without description, if you would rather have the original sound alone.
Every film here that carries audio description — what description is, who it is for, and how ours are made.
How this print was restored
This copy of One Week was restored here, from a print that had been through a good deal before it reached us. The source print was 480p; this one is 468p. The work finished on 2026-09-07. Every step is listed below, because a re-encode passed off as a restoration is worth nothing and the only way to tell them apart is to say what was done.
- 183 audio description cues, Kokoro am_michael at 173 wpm, written against the frames and swept across each cue span. Score commissioned for this silent film and normalised to -16.0 LUFS before muxing. Master -16.7 LUFS, true peak -2.0 dBTP, duck 10.0 dB.
The print we started from is here, so the before and after can be compared.
More like this: Free comedy films, Free silent films.