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- Thu May 05, 2016 11:49 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: How Harold Lloyd filmed Bumping Into Broadway
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How Harold Lloyd filmed Bumping Into Broadway
Several early views of old Los Angeles appear during Bumping Into Broadway (1919), some long demolished, others still standing 97 years later. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7572/26571124940_44ec6385a6_c.jpg Bumping Broadway Cleveland scene_Page_08 by SilentEchoes57 , on Flickr https://silentlocatio...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:27 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Buster filming Cops on Santa Monica Blvd.
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Buster filming Cops on Santa Monica Blvd.
My latest post shows how Buster filmed a scene from Cops traveling east down Santa Monica Boulevard past Gower, just blocks from his small studio. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1701/26466823891_69acc8702a_z.jpg Drug Pan 2 by SilentEchoes57 , on Flickr https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2016/04/1...
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 11:08 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Six new Chaplin - Keaton locations in one 1920 aerial photo
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Six new Chaplin - Keaton locations in one 1920 aerial photo
Charlie Chaplin filmed his Mutual comedy shorts (1916-17) at the same small studio where Buster Keaton later filmed his independent shorts and features (1920-28). A rediscovered 1920 aerial photo reveals six new locations used by Chaplin and Keaton. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1637/25366541814_e8...
- Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:34 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: How Mabel Normand filmed her rooftop stunt in Mickey
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Re: How Mabel Normand filmed her rooftop stunt in Mickey
MICKEY was started on the East Coast, and went through lots of footage and directors (inclusing James Young, J. Farrell McDonald, and Arvid Gillstrom before F. Richard Jones took over and finished it), Production lasted nearly a year with shooting commencing from Summer of 1916 to Spring of 1917, w...
- Tue Mar 08, 2016 3:53 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: How Mabel Normand filmed her rooftop stunt in Mickey
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Re: How Mabel Normand filmed her rooftop stunt in Mickey
MICKEY was shot all over the place, the racetrack scenes were shot in Phoenix, Arizona at the old Fairgrounds grandstand. RICHARD M ROBERTS Thanks Richard - I didn't know they filmed out of state. Do you know why they filmed in Arizona? I have read that the mountain lake scenes were filmed near LA ...
- Mon Mar 07, 2016 10:24 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: How Mabel Normand filmed her rooftop stunt in Mickey
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How Mabel Normand filmed her rooftop stunt in Mickey
Read how Mabel Normand cleverly staged a rooftop stunt for her 1918 feature Mickey on a classic Bunker Hill building years before Harold Lloyd filmed his own stunts for Safety Last. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/mickey-pan-03.jpg https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2016/03/07...
- Thu Feb 04, 2016 12:15 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chaplin in the warehouse district 100 years ago
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Chaplin in the warehouse district 100 years ago
Charlie filmed this scene from Work (1915) over 100 years ago in the old produce warehouse section of downtown. Thanks to the amazing clarity of the Essanay Blu-ray restoration from Flicker Alley, we can now see where he filmed, less than a mile from the Bradbury Mansion studio where he made the res...
- Wed Dec 30, 2015 10:05 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Roscoe Arbuckle's Safety Last! stunt filmed before Harold's
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Roscoe Arbuckle's Safety Last! stunt filmed before Harold's
Roscoe Arbuckle hung from a building in downtown Los Angeles filming The Life of the Party in 1920, more than a year before Harold Lloyd filmed scenes from Never Weaken in 1921, while featuring views of buildings Harold would use filming Safety Last! in 1923. https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/20...
- Sun Dec 20, 2015 7:13 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: SOMEBODY'S WIDOW (1918) Strand Comedy with Billie Rhodes
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Re: SOMEBODY'S WIDOW (1918) Strand Comedy with Billie Rhodes
This was filmed in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel, appearing in Chaplin's The Idle Class, and Lloyd's A Sailor-Made Man, and near Castle Rock, a very popular beach location, where Chaplin filmed The Adventurer. https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/how-charlie-chaplin-filmed-the-adventu...
- Sun Dec 20, 2015 7:07 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Why Houdini filmed at a particular Hollywood alley
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Why Houdini filmed at a particular Hollywood alley
Find out why Houdini filmed at a Hollywood alley later used by Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd.
https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2015/12/19/houdini-the-grim-game-more-hollywood-connections/
Cheers, John
https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2015/12/19/houdini-the-grim-game-more-hollywood-connections/
Cheers, John