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Top Posts & Pages
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed Safety Last!
- How Buster Keaton Filmed The General
- LA's Early Hills, Tunnels Preserved in Noir - Silent Comedies
- Solved at Last! - the Safety Last! Mystery Building
- Charlie Chaplin's Echo Park Home - 100 Years Later
- Buster Keaton's Haunted House
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed the Girl Shy Trolley Stunts
- The Three Stooges, Birth of a Nation, Forest Lawn Trees
- Groucho, Buster, and Noir - at the Pasadena Jewett Estate
- Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin - Four Silent Jailbreaks
- Follow Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more) on WordPress.com
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
- Associated Press
- Examiner – Best 2011 Silent Film Books
- The Commentary Track
- Leonard Maltin Movie Crazy
- LA Observed
- Film Forum New York
- New York Times – Keaton Review
- 2013 Club TCM in Hollywood
- LA Times 2013
- John Bengtson on IMDB
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Recent Posts
- Buster Keaton’s Haunted House
- Chaplin – Pavlova – Lois Weber – at the Castle Sans Souci
- Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman leads the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
- Hollywood’s Silent Echoes – 2017 FIAF/FLC Tour
- Keaton’s The Goat – the geography of a gag
- Buster with a Bullitt – Keaton and Steve McQueen’s SF Stunts
- Keaton and Orson Welles – A High Sign Touch of Evil
- Keaton and Hitchcock’s Vertigo Day Dreams
- Keaton’s Cops and Go West – Peeking Over the School Fence
- Chaplin – Inside “The Kid” Maternity Hospital
- Where Roscoe Arbuckle Filmed His Brooklyn Vitaphone Shorts
- Marc Wanamaker and Bruce Torrence – Hollywood’s Photo History Heroes
- Buster Keaton, Seven Chances, and Warren Beatty?
- Buster Keaton, The General, and Animal House?
- How Chaplin Filmed The Champion – on Location in Niles
- The Chaplin – Keaton – Lloyd Hollywood Alley
- Chaplin’s The Tramp – ‘New’ Views of One of Cinema’s Most Iconic Scenes
- Silent Witness – the House that Watched Over Chaplin and Keaton
- The Modern Times – Citizen Kane – Humphrey Bogart Factory Gate
- Cinecon 2016 Silent Echoes Hollywood Walking Tours
- Amazing New Keaton Discoveries – My Wife’s Relations
- Saving the Best for (Safety) Last!
- Reflections on Keaton’s Cops at the SF Silent Film Festival
- Columbo and the Silent Clowns – Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed Bumping Into Broadway
- Buster in Cops Cruising Santa Monica Boulevard
- Chaplin – Keaton Studio Connections – The Fireman and Convict 13
- How Mabel Normand filmed her Safety Last! Moment (Before Harold Lloyd Did)
- Mostly Lost – Keaton Found (Stan Laurel too) at Hollywood and Western
- The Kid – Charlie Chaplin’s Onscreen Fans
- Chaplin on South Central – Making It Work
- How Charlie Chaplin filmed The Kid
- How Roscoe Arbuckle Filmed His Safety Last! Moment (Before Harold Lloyd Did)
- Houdini – The Grim Game – More Hollywood Connections
- Houdini – The Grim Game’s historic LA landmarks
- Houdini – Keaton – The Grim Game – Cops
- Keaton – Langdon – Lloyd on Larchmont – Ebell Club Author Talk
- Ginger, Buster, and Groucho, Lon Chaney and Loretta Young, all at the Jewett Estate
- San Francisco’s Silent Echoes – Presidio Officers’ Club Talk
- New Chaplin Discovery – Cinecon Talk and Guided Tour
- Chaplin, Sinatra, The Pilgrim and Noir
- Groucho, Buster, and Noir – at the Pasadena Jewett Estate
- Charlie Chaplin City Lights Tour – Author Presentation
- Harold Lloyd’s Speedy – Five Fun Facts
- The Three On A Match – ‘G’ Men – Ann Dvorak connection
- The Three Stooges, Birth of a Nation, Forest Lawn Trees
- Cagney and Keaton Crossing Paths in Inglewood
- How Laurel & Hardy Filmed Perfect Day – New Discoveries
- The Artist and its Amazing Ties to Chaplin, Pickford, Keaton and Lloyd
- How Laurel and Hardy Filmed Another Fine Mess
- Mid City Views – How Hal Roach’s Taxi Boys filmed Taxi for Two
- Even More Speedy – New York Locations
- The Big Parade – Historic Views of the Home Front
- How Charlie Chaplin Filmed The Bank
- How Barbara Stanwyck Filmed Night Nurse
- How James Cagney Filmed Lady Killer
- How Charlie Chaplin Filmed The Adventurer
- Cagney and Harlow on The Public Enemy’s Miracle Mile
- How Buster Keaton Filmed The General
- Keaton’s The General on location in Cottage Grove
- Silent Era Hollywood Tour – Cinecon 50 – Author Presentation
- Charlie Chaplin’s Echo Park Home – 100 Years Later
- Chaplin’s First Scene – a Very Busy Place to Film
- Max Linder Shines Again in Seven Years Bad Luck
- Keaton’s Heart in San Francisco – The Navigator
- Chaplin – Caught In the Rain 100 Years Ago by the 2nd St Tunnel
- Chaplin – 100 Years Ago on Sunset Boulevard
- Harold Lloyd’s Why Worry? TCM Hollywood Connection
- Chaplin Leads the Gang to the Hollywood Police
- Perry Mason at the Chaplin Studio – The Case of the Homecoming Kid
- Mary Pickford and the Silent Stars Meet at One Hollywood Corner
- Laurel & Hardy Hit The Skids
- Buster Keaton and The Three Stooges – Round 6
- Harold Lloyd Takes A Chance on Court Hill
- W.C. Fields in Palm Beach – It’s the Old Army Game
- New City Lights Release – Discoveries and Assumptions
- LA’s Early Hills, Tunnels Preserved in Noir – Silent Comedies
- More Discoveries From Keaton’s Cops
- Johnny Depp and Buster Keaton at the Cops/Ed Wood alley
- Harry Langdon – The Strong Man Part 3
- A new version of Keaton’s The Blacksmith – part 3, Robin Hood’s castle and more surprises
- Leave it to Santa Monica – Beaver and Harold Lloyd
- The Kid – Cops – Safety Last! Three comic masterpieces filmed at a common Hollywood alley you can still visit today
- Punky, Harold, and Harry – nine decades of film location history at Shatto Place
- Found – a new version of Keaton’s The Blacksmith – part 2, more surprises
- Found – a new version of Keaton’s The Blacksmith and the tales it tells
- The Last Edition 1925 – filmed in San Francisco (and LA)
- Silent Era Hollywood Tour – Cinecon 49 – Author Presentation
- Solved at Last! – the Safety Last! Mystery Building
- How Harold Lloyd filmed the Safety Last! finale (at three places)
- Leave it to Harold (and Beaver) at the Long Beach Pike
- How Charlie Chaplin made The Kid (older post)
- On the Fence – Keaton’s stunts in Cops and Our Hospitality
- Keaton location to be demolished – photo help?
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed Safety Last (the parts on the ground)
- Douglas Fairbanks, Edge of Doom, and Film Noir
- Buster’s Paramount Backlot Plunge
- Author Appearance at TCM Classic Film Festival – Free Tour
- Cops and Safety Last! – the Cosmo Alley Connection
- Keaton – Seven Chances Filmed Close to Studio
- Follow Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more) on WordPress.com
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- Chaplin – Pavlova – Lois Weber – at the Castle Sans Souci
- Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman leads the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
- Hollywood’s Silent Echoes – 2017 FIAF/FLC Tour
- Keaton’s The Goat – the geography of a gag
- Buster with a Bullitt – Keaton and Steve McQueen’s SF Stunts
- Keaton and Orson Welles – A High Sign Touch of Evil
- Keaton and Hitchcock’s Vertigo Day Dreams
- Keaton’s Cops and Go West – Peeking Over the School Fence
- Chaplin – Inside “The Kid” Maternity Hospital
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Silent Witness – the House that Watched Over Chaplin and Keaton
The sturdy two-story home once located at 1022 Cole Avenue had a front row seat to some of the most remarkable scenes in early Hollywood history. Its rear dormer window looked down on the humble open air stage where Charlie … Continue reading
Posted in Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Daydreams, Sherlock Jr., The Blacksmith, The Boat
Tagged Buster Keaton, Chaplin Locations, Charlie Chaplin, Day Dreams, Keaton Studio, Silent Comedians, Silent Comedies, Silent Movie Locations, Technicolor Building, The Blacksmith, The Boat, The Floorwalker, then and now
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