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At the peak of their careers, silent Hollywood’s biggest stars all worked within one mile of each other – just a three-minute-drive in light traffic. Video includes “new” images of Pickford-Fairbanks Studio. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GGiK1Sr2U This decade old post explains the aerial view in ...

Columbia Studios Screen Snapshots captured pioneer Hollywood stunt pilot/actor Frank Clarke flying an airplane from the roof of the Los Angeles Railroad Building downtown. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/000-railway-10.jpg Seen here under construction, before a later building wou...

Is it me, or do these three new books about Charlie Chaplin listed on Amazon seem to have something in common?

I know nothing about AI, but the Snub video was likely created and posted with one push of a button. When the LA Times ran a story in 2021 about efforts to recognize the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd alley, an unintentionally hilarious AI-generated video popped up, narrating the article text matched with inc...

The "narrator" blathered non-stop in generic platitudes without actually saying anything. He pronounced "show biz" as "show BEES." The closing line "Snub's work lives [rhymes with hives] on" suggests they need to upgrade their AI.

Bits and pieces of Hollywood history appear in little-known comedies and promotional films – studio entrances, Sessue Hayakawa’s home and pet dog house!



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100 years later, ripples in time from a “lost” film reveal the Buster Keaton bungalow from Three Ages , still standing at El Centro and Leland - read more https://wp.me/p11nfB-5Ld https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/00-3-ages-pan-11-extra-16-9.jpg Buster’s Roman Age family home was a...

I have to wonder what they were thinking with the Lombard layout. That just seems like a recipe for MORE accidents. It was a steep, brick street, so the hairpin turns lessened the slope and slowed down traffic. Remarkably it was a TWO-WAY street for about 15 years! But back then no one knew about i...

Buster filmed scenes from Day Dreams (1922) and The Navigator (1924) across San Francisco. Most locations look remarkably unchanged a century later. My latest YouTube video reveals every SF locale, intercut with scenes where Buster “cheated” by also filming in Hollywood and Oakland instead. http://w...

Buster Keaton and WC Fields filmed beside the same apartment in Astoria Queens, but they also filmed near Buster’s studio, and the 100 year old storage building still standing at 6372 Santa Monica Blvd. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/00.jpg https://silentlocations.files.wordpres...