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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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- Chaplin Studio
- Chaplin Tour
- Charlie Chaplin
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- 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
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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: September 2011
Buster Keaton and Film Noir? – It’s Also True
It’s now Buster Keaton’s turn, after Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin (see prior posts), to brush shoulders with film noir. The Glendale Southern Pacific station was barely three years old when Buster Keaton used it to portray the station for … Continue reading
Posted in Buster Keaton, College, Harold Lloyd, Los Angeles Historic Core, Film Noir, Bunker Hill, Angels Flight, For Heaven's Sake
Tagged Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Silent Movie Locations, Silent Comedies, Silent Movies, Los Angeles Historic Core, film noir, bunker hill, angles flight, film noir locations
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Cameo Squared – Lou Gehrig in Ruth’s Speedy Cameo
Eagle-eyed reader Kevin Dale not only recognized the setting of the very first shot of Charlie Chaplin’s career (see prior post), he also notified me of this amazing discovery. During the concluding scenes from Babe Ruth’s cameo appearance in Speedy … Continue reading
Posted in Harold Lloyd, Manhattan, New York, Speedy
Tagged Babe Ruth, Harold Lloyd, Lou Gehrig, Manhattan, New York, Silent Comedies, Silent Movie Locations, Silent Movies, Speedy
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Silent Era New York – Harold Lloyd’s Speedy – Part 1
I will be presenting Harold Lloyd’s final silent comedy Speedy (1928) on October 16, 2011 at the Museum of the Moving Image, 36 01 35th Ave., Astoria, NY, at 3:00 pm, based on the discoveries in my new Lloyd book … Continue reading
Posted in Brooklyn, Harold Lloyd, Lloyd Tour, Manhattan, New York, Speedy
Tagged Brooklyn, Harold Lloyd, Manhattan, New York, Silent Comedies, Silent Movie Locations, Silent Movies, Speedy
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Stan, Ollie, and Harold – a Drive Through Bunker Hill
The Prelinger Archives has just posted some amazingly sharp movie footage of Bunker Hill and downtown Los Angeles taken in the late 1940s. The stock footage was intended to be projected behind actors filming a traveling car scene within an … Continue reading
Posted in Harold Lloyd, Lloyd Studio, Stan Laurel, Los Angeles Historic Core, Film Noir, Bunker Hill, For Heaven's Sake, Oliver Hardy, Girl Shy, Duck Soup, Hal Roach Studios, Laurel and Hardy
Tagged Harold Lloyd, Silent Movie Locations, Silent Comedies, Stan Laurel, Silent Comedians, then and now, film noir, bunker hill, film noir locations, Oliver Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Girl Shy, Hal Roach Studios
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Charlie Chaplin and Film Noir? – It’s Also True
Charlie Chaplin and and film noir? It’s also true. As with my prior post about Harold Lloyd, Chaplin also has a connection to The Turning Point (1952), a noir crime drama where William Holden plays a cynical reporter investigating a … Continue reading
