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Top Posts & Pages
- Buster ... Shemp, Moe and Larry - Cops and Soup to Nuts
- The Artist Locations Part 3, Harold Lloyd, and Safety Last!
- Buster and the Three Stooges at the Columbia Ranch - Part 2
- About Silent Locations
- Stan, Ollie, and Harold - a Drive Through Bunker Hill
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed Safety Last!
- Help Please? - Silent Jailbreak - SOLVED
- Hollywood 1926 - The Big Picture and How the Pieces Fit
- The Artist - Locations, Chaplin, and Pickford
- The Artist Locations Part 4, Bradbury, Chaplin, and Lloyd
Author Interviews – Reviews
- Academy Interview July 2011
- AMPAS Lecture on The General
- City Brights SF Gate Review
- Publishers Weekly Review
- KPCC Interview
- Interview on Movie Mom
- Philadelphina Inquirer
- Los Angeles Times interview
- Los Angeles Magazine Review
- MOMI article on New York and Speedy
- New York Times (see page 5)
- Author’s Modern Times Program
- Wall Street Journal
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Recent Posts
- A Tale of Two Train Wrecks (and One Airport) – by Buster Keaton
- Bones of the Past – the Bones TV Pilot and Buster Keaton
- Hollywood 1926 – The Big Picture and How the Pieces Fit
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed Girl Shy on Bunker Hill
- Keaton – Cops – and the First Baptist Church of Hollywood
- Harry Langdon – The Strong Man Part 2
- Help Please? – Silent Jailbreak – SOLVED
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed the Girl Shy Trolley Stunts
- Keaton’s Highland Goat Garage
- The Office – Film Noir – and Harold Lloyd
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed Safety Last!
- The Artist Locations – Part 6 – Uggie Saves The Day
- The Artist – Locations 1 of 5, Chaplin, and Pickford (repost)
- Mr. Keaton’s Neighborhood
- New York, Harold Lloyd, and Adam Sandler?!
- The Artist Locations Part 5 – Chaplin’s City Lights
- Chaplin’s Modern (Los Angeles) Times
- The Artist Locations Part 4, Bradbury, Chaplin, and Lloyd
- The Artist Locations Part 3, Harold Lloyd, and Safety Last!
- The Artist Locations Part 2, Roger Rabbit, and Buster Keaton’s Debut – One Week
- The Artist – Locations, Chaplin, and Pickford
- Charming Third Time for Seven Chances
- Win a Copy of Silent Visions in TCM December Contest
- Buster’s Manhattan Project – on Film
- Laurel and Hardy – Home at Last
- Chaplin – Keaton – Lloyd – One Block in Silent-Era Hollywood
- Chaplin’s Kid Autos – They Were What ?!?
- New Photos – Babe Ruth’s Orphanage Cameo in Speedy
- Buster’s Trains – One Week to Speak Easily
- Buster Keaton and Film Noir? – It’s Also True
- Cameo Squared – Lou Gehrig in Ruth’s Speedy Cameo
- Silent Era New York – Harold Lloyd’s Speedy – Part 1
- Stan, Ollie, and Harold – a Drive Through Bunker Hill
- Charlie Chaplin and Film Noir? – It’s Also True
- Harold Lloyd and Film Noir? – It’s True
- Buster and the Three Stooges at the Columbia Ranch – Part 2
- View Academy Lecture on The General Locations
- New locations from The General
- Safety Last! Mr. Epstein’s Writing on the Wall
- Harold Lloyd Safety Last! Downtown Tour
- Harold – Buster – and Bergdorf Goodman – NYC Then and Now
- Rare Chaplin Scenes in Downtown Los Angeles
- Stan Laurel in Chaplin’s Footprints
- Buster and the Three Stooges at the Columbia Ranch – Part 1
- College Days for Harold and Buster
- Buster … Shemp, Moe and Larry – Cops and Soup to Nuts
- Harold Lloyd’s Manhattan cigar
- Harold Lloyd – lasting impressions at Grauman’s Chinese
- Harold Lloyd Brooklyn – Speedy Tour
- Michael Scott (?!) and the Mayfair Hotel – admittedly OT
- Harold Lloyd on Deadman’s Island
- Chaplin’s Beverly Wilshire Cigar
- Stan Laurel in Buster’s Footprints
- Buster Keaton Steamboat Bill, Jr. locations
- Meet Buster in Goatland at the Silver Spray Pier
- Langdon on Larchmont
- Harry Langdon in The Strong Man
- Chaplin – A Film Johnnie at the Bryson
- Harold Lloyd Hollywood Tour
- Chaplin Medley of Then and Now Images
- Chaplin’s Very First Scene – Now a Jack-in-the-Box
- Tour of Chaplin’s The Kid
- Details Behind Video Tour of Chaplin Keystone Locations
- A Dozen Prominent Keaton Locations
- Buster Films Stunt Beside His Own Studio
Categories
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- Brooklyn
- Bunker Hill
- Buster Keaton
- Chaplin Studio
- Chaplin Tour
- Charlie Chaplin
- Chinatown
- City Lights
- College
- Columbia
- Cops
- Daydreams
- Duck Soup
- Exposition Park
- Film Noir
- For Heaven's Sake
- Girl Shy
- Hal Roach Studios
- Harold Lloyd
- Harry Langdon
- Hollywood Tour
- Hot Water
- Keaton Studio
- Keaton Tour
- Keystone Studio
- Laurel and Hardy
- Lloyd Studio
- Lloyd Thrill Pictures
- Lloyd Tour
- Los Angeles Historic Core
- Manhattan
- Modern Times
- New York
- Oliver Hardy
- One Week
- Safety Last!
- Seven Chances
- Sherlock Jr.
- Speedy
- Stan Laurel
- Steamboat Bill, Jr.
- The Artist
- The Cameraman
- The Freshman
- The General
- The Goat
- The Kid
- The Office
- The Strong Man
- Three Stooges
- Uncategorized
- USC
- Venice
Archives
Silent Locations – Chaplin – Keaton – Lloyd (and more)- A Tale of Two Train Wrecks (and One Airport) – by Buster Keaton
- Bones of the Past – the Bones TV Pilot and Buster Keaton
- Hollywood 1926 – The Big Picture and How the Pieces Fit
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed Girl Shy on Bunker Hill
- Keaton – Cops – and the First Baptist Church of Hollywood
- Harry Langdon – The Strong Man Part 2
- Help Please? – Silent Jailbreak – SOLVED
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed the Girl Shy Trolley Stunts
- Keaton’s Highland Goat Garage
- The Office – Film Noir – and Harold Lloyd
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Stan Laurel in Buster’s Footprints
One of my all time favorite Keaton location discoveries was finding these statues appearing in Buster Keaton’s short film Hard Luck (1921). During the scene, Buster eludes the police by posing among the statues of a park monument. The scene … Continue reading
Buster Keaton Steamboat Bill, Jr. locations
Buster Keaton filmed his final independent production Steamboat Bill, Jr. in Sacramento, California. By the time Keaton and company came to town, Sacramento had become a popular location for Hollywood films. Historian Paul Frobose discovered these Sacramento locations, and has … Continue reading
Meet Buster in Goatland at the Silver Spray Pier
Believe it or not, renting goat carts to travel around the Southern California beach amusement piers was once a popular entertainment. In this scene from the Roscoe Arbuckle – Buster Keaton comedy The Cook (1918) (Milestone Film & Video), Buster … Continue reading
Langdon on Larchmont
Larchmont Boulevard was (and remains) a very popular place to film. Many of Harry Langdon’s antics from Saturday Afternoon (1926) were filmed at the corner of Larchmont and W. 1st Street. Larchmont appears in many other silent films, including Harold … Continue reading
Harry Langdon in The Strong Man
One of the great set pieces from Harry Langdon’s The Strong Man (1926) takes place as Harry attempts to transport a femme fatale up a flight of stairs into her apartment. With a suspicious cop on her tail, “Lily” of … Continue reading
Chaplin – A Film Johnnie at the Bryson
The remarkable image quality of the new Chaplin at Keystone collection from Flicker Alley makes it possible to identify several more scenes from Charlie’s earliest films. As shown here, the extant Bryson Apartments (2701 Wilshire Blvd.) stood in for the … Continue reading
Harold Lloyd Hollywood Tour
Tour silent-era Hollywood with this PDF guide prepared in connection with my May 22, 2011 presentation of Harold Lloyd’s Never Weaken and Girl Shy for the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theater, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. The tour is … Continue reading
Posted in Buster Keaton, Chaplin Studio, Chaplin Tour, Charlie Chaplin, Girl Shy, Harold Lloyd, Hollywood Tour, Keaton Studio, Keaton Tour, Lloyd Studio, Lloyd Tour
Tagged Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Hollywood Tour, Lloyd Studio, Silent Comedies, Silent Movie Locations, Silent Movies
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Chaplin Medley of Then and Now Images
This 27 MB PowerPoint slide-show features over a dozen famous Chaplin filming locations, fading back and forth between vintage and contemporary images. The ghostly transitions are quite effective. The slides are animated, so please pause long enough before clicking to … Continue reading
Chaplin’s Very First Scene – Now a Jack-in-the-Box
Following the release of the Chaplin at Keystone DVD Collection, for which I prepared a bonus feature program posted elsewhere on this blog, Kevin Dale contacted me wondering if Chaplin had filmed the opening scene from his inaugural film Making … Continue reading
Tour of Chaplin’s The Kid
Attached below is a PowerPoint presentation showing the historic settings in Chinatown and the Plaza de Los Angeles where Chaplin filmed his early masterpiece The Kid (1921). The file is about 60MB, and you will need a PowerPoint viewer to … Continue reading
Posted in Chaplin Tour, Charlie Chaplin, The Kid
Tagged Chaplin Tour, Charlie Chaplin, Silent Comedies, Silent Movie Locations, Silent Movies, The Kid
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Details Behind Video Tour of Chaplin Keystone Locations
I highly recommend the Chaplin at Keystone DVD collection presented by Flicker Alley. Watching these beautiful restorations of Chaplin’s earliest films made during 1914 at the Keystone Studio is a revelation. For years only nearly unwatchable copies of these films … Continue reading
