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Last month I gave a series of Hollywood walking tours for members of FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives, which held their annual congress this year in Hollywood as guests of the Motion Picture Academy and UCLA. Here is a page from the brochure I prepared for FIAF and the Film Librar...

This post shows how Buster stitched together seven scenes, all filmed closed to his studio home, to create one gag for The Goat (1921). The Bell & Howell building at the corner of Santa Monica Blvd and Lillian Way (2, 4, 6 below) still stands, a block north of his former studio site. https://sil...

Buster Keaton crossed paths with Orson Welles in Venice, California ( The High Sign and Touch of Evil ), and with Alfred Hitchcock in San Francisco ( Day Dreams and Vertigo ). But Keaton also crossed paths with ‘King of Cool’ actor Steve McQueen filming stunts in the City by the Bay. https://silentl...

Orson Welles greatly admired Keaton - I doubt they realized they each filmed at the same spot in Venice, California. The High Sign and Touch of Evil . https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/high-sign-touch-of-evil-pan.jpg Read more here https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/k...

Filmed on location in San Francisco, Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Vertigo (1958) provides tantalizing mid-century glimpses of the City in sparkling VistaVision color. Remarkably, when Scottie (James Stewart) traces Madeleine (Kim Novak) by car back to his own apartment, they cross paths twice with...

In this rather unremarkable photo of the recently completed addition to the Vine Street Elementary School in Hollywood you can see something quite remarkable over the fence - a view of the Metro backlot where Buster Keaton filmed scenes from Cops and Go West https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.c...

This post allows you to see inside the 'maternity hospital' Chaplin used in The Kid . The building was once part of the original Occidental College campus, visited by Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. Remarkably the building still stands as an apartment block. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.co...

Would you believe both movies were filmed at the same church?

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Cheers, John

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Charlie filmed his Essanay boxing comedy The Champion (1915) on location in Niles, CA. It will be featured Dec. 3 at the SF Silent Film Festival Day of Silents event. http://www.silentfilm.org/homepage/gallery/save-the-date https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/the-champion_page_05.jpg...