This is a short book but intense and deeply moving. In the end Jonathan is left to bring up his son Patrick as a single father. The story that Jonathan tells is made even more poignant by the fact that it deals also with his wife's unsuccessful battle with cancer. It is also the story of how this almost overwhelming surge of loving energy led Jonathan to found first the Hong Kong Down Syndrome Association, and then later another charity to take into China the same idea that the key to supporting children like Stevie is to support their parents - and to see the problem as one involving the whole family. Wordjazz for Stevie is the story of Jonathan's life with Stevie and the deeply beneficial impact she had on his life. For the remaining seven and a half years of her life she was blind, epileptic and unable to sit, let alone walk. Something went wrong during the operation and Stevie suffered a momentary lack of oxygen that left her severely brain-damaged. A few months later it became clear that she had a serious heart defect that required a `hole in the heart' operation. Stevie was immediately diagnosed with Down's syndrome. įollowing Peña's discovery, a third version of the film, featuring at least one scene which doesn't occur in either of the other two, was found in the collection of former film distributor Blackhawk Films.In 1986, Jonathan Chamberlain and his wife Bernadette had their first child, Stevie, a daughter. They now believe the rediscovered version was Keaton's final cut intended for wide distribution. Film historians have since found evidence that the version of The Blacksmith Peña uncovered was a substantial reshoot undertaken months after completion of principal photography and a preview screening in New York.

In June 2013, Argentine film collector, curator and historian Fernando Martín Peña (who had previously unearthed the complete version of Metropolis) discovered an alternate version of this film, a sort of remake whose last reel differs completely from the previously known version.

Buster Keaton as Blacksmith's assistant.

Buster Keaton hoists a Model T engine from a wrecked car as Virginia Fox flirts with an unidentified actor in a scene still for the 1922 comedy short The Blacksmith.

The Blacksmith by Barbara Howe