Question

In this film, the main character uses a series of pool trick shots to avoid hitting an explosive number 13 ball, before it’s revealed that he already replaced the explosive ball. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this film, in which the film projectionist protagonist changes the price on a box of chocolates to seem more impressive. In a dream sequence in this film, the protagonist falls asleep and enters the movie he’s running.
ANSWER: Sherlock Jr. [or Sherlock Junior]
[10m] Sherlock Jr. is a film by this silent film star. In this star’s most famous movie, his character is disallowed from joining the Confederate military and chases Union troops after they steal his locomotive.
ANSWER: Buster Keaton [or Joseph Frank Keaton; reject “Joe Keaton” or “Joseph Hallie Keaton”]
[10e] A popular scene from The General shows one of these objects collapsing under the weight of a locomotive, “The Texas.” In a David Lean movie, British POWs construct one of these objects “on the River Kwai.”
ANSWER: a bridge [accept The Bridge on the River Kwai; accept railroad trestle or railway trestle]
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Berkeley ABerkeley B0101020
Berkeley CStanford A001010