Harold Lloyd 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
Harold Lloyd Brooklyn – Speedy Tour – Author MOMI Event October 16, 2011
In conjunction with my presentation of Speedy on October 16, 2011 at the Museum of the Moving Image, 36 01 35th Ave., Astoria, NY, at 3:00 pm, this tour shows the Brooklyn locations appearing during the film. Of course the Coney Island sequences from the movie were also filmed in Brooklyn, but I cover that as an entirely separate chapter in my Lloyd book Silent Visions.
Manhattan viewed from Kent and 8th in Brooklyn
Impromptu Video Tour of Hollywood and Cahuenga – A Keaton and Lloyd Favorite
Freelance UK film journalist Jonathan Melville arranged for me to give him an impromptu tour of Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga, a street where Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Charlie Chaplin all filmed scenes. Here is what Jon put together, as posted on YouTube.
Harold Lloyd Safety Last! Downtown Tour
Lloyd on a set built atop the extant building at 908 S. Broadway, with the extant Hamburger’s (May Co.) Building at the SW corner of 8th and Broadway to the rear.
In conjunction with the sold-out Los Angeles Conservancy “Last Remaining Seats” screening of Safety Last! on June 29 at the Orpheum Theatre, I am posting here a self-guided walking tour of the downtown Los Angeles locations Harold Lloyd used in his 1923 silent classic, along with locations from Lloyd’s climbing stunts in Never Weaken (1921) and Feet First (1930), and behind the scenes images showing how Lloyd staged his famous skyscraper-climbing sequences.
Harold Lloyd Safety Last Tour – Silent Visions
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