Chaplin Locations Tour on New Keystone DVDs
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 were available. Now you can now clearly see Charlie’s face, nuances, and gestures, and appreciate why he stood out, and made such an immediate hit with audiences worldwide.
As part of the collection, I was honored to prepare a short bonus feature program outlining some of the film locations appearing in Chaplin’s Keystone films. A viewer has posted this program tour on YouTube.
Charlie Chaplin Hollywood Tour
Tour silent-era Hollywood with this PDF guide prepared in connection with my April 28, 2013, 3:00 p.m. presentation of Hollywood’s Silent Echoes for the TCM Classic Film Festival at Club TCM at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.
The tour is annotated with corresponding page numbers (SV) from my Harold Lloyd film location book Silent Visions: Discovering Early Hollywood and New York through the Films of Harold Lloyd, from Santa Monica Press. Annotations for Charlie Chaplin (ST) and Buster Keaton (SE) refer to page numbers from my Chaplin and Keaton film location books Silent Traces and Silent Echoes. Locations that are not annotated represent new discoveries not appearing in the books.
The tour takes you to several silent-era locations right in Hollywood, as well as the sites for the Lloyd, Chaplin, and Keaton Studios.
Club TCM Hollywood’s Silent Echoes Tour 2013
Chaplin Tour of 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 watch the show. Most of the slides are animated, so wait a moment each time before clicking the “next” button. You can download a PowerPoint viewer at this site.
THE KID – Silent Traces Historic Tour
The Pilgrim and Modern Times at the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society’s 2011 ChaplinFest, from within the very train station where Chaplin filmed The Pilgrim. Here is the site of the Modern Times finale on Google Maps.
This was awesome, thanks for posting this!
Charles Chaplin would have said to his 10 children that they once had a brother named Norman and he died 3 days after.