Miscellany
- The film was inspired by a Ford Motor Company documentary, Home Made (1919), an educational short about prefabricated housing. Keaton saw the film and decided to parody it. One Week has many of the devices used in Home Made, including the wedding, the Model T and the use of the pages from a daily calendar to show the house being built in one week.
- Many special effects, such as the house spinning around during a storm and the train collision, were filmed as they occurred and were not model work.
- The house was built on a turntable, so it would be able to spin during the violent rainstorm scene.
- The fall Keaton takes when he steps out of the bathroom and falls two stories down, is one of the few occasions he truly hurt himself making films. The impact of the fall made his arms and back swell, and his physical trainer, Al Gilmore had to put him in hot and cold showers and then apply olive oil and later horse liniment to eventually get the swelling down.
- The mischievous rival is an unknown actor. Joe Roberts has a brief bit as a strong-man piano mover.
- Sybil Seely was 18 years old when she made this movie. She starred in 18 movies, the last one in 1922. She died in 1984.
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