My name is C.C.Baxter - C.for Calvin, C.for Clifford, however most people call me Bud.I""ve been with Consolidated for three years and ten months and my take-home pay is $94.70 a week.The hours in our department are 8:50 to 5:20 - they""re staggered by floors, so that sixteen elevators can handle the 31,259 employees without a serious traffic jam.The next scene was set at Rancho Arroyo, a Mesa Verde Construction housing development in the desert near Los Angeles, run by foreman Jack Travis (Stuart Wilson)." BackgroundThe General(1927) is an imaginative masterpiece of dead-pan "Stone-Face" Buster Keaton comedy, generally regarded as one of the greatest of all silent comedies (and Keaton""s own favorite) - and undoubtedly the best train film ever made.This sarcasm, if I may call it such, does not become you, O my little brothers.As I am your droog and leader, I am entitled to know what goes on, eh? Now then, Dim, what does that great big horsy gape of a grin portend?Georgie: All right, no more picking on Dim, brother.