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Do you see it? Hiding in plain sight – when Buster Keaton first meets Brown Eyes the cow during Go West , a touching scene, he boldly employs some cinematic magic. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/25-go-west-shes-my-friend.png Buster uses this trick several times during the film -...

Step by step, see how Harold Lloyd filmed Safety Last! atop increasingly taller buildings, a single scene filmed atop three different buildings, also filming near USC, MacArthur Park, and at the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley in Hollywood. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/safety-last-...

Step by step, views of early Hollywood and the Plaza de Los Angeles downtown reveal where Edna Purviance lost and #CharlieChaplin found the baby who became The Kid. Charlie’s beautiful scores for The Kid accompany this detailed study of the movie’s opening scenes. YouTube link below https://silentlo...

Wrangling a live turkey on a trolley, forced to walk it home, overlapping Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. , even more visual history is now revealed from Harold Lloyd’s Hot Water (1924). https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/0-hot-water_sherlock-162-lucerne-tn.jpg https://silentlocations....

Where does Charlie Chaplin recover from his Modern Times breakdown? The last remaining location has now been solved https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/0-modern-times-occidental-then-and-then.jpg Read all about where and how here https://silentlocations.com/2022/08/21/charlie-chaplin...

As angry brides chase Buster up what turns out to be Vine Street during Seven Chances , you can see the corner of his Keaton Studio down the street as they run across Eleanor Ave. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/00-keaton-studio-1920-16-x-9-2.jpg Read all about them running up Vi...

My post about His Day Out shows Oliver Hardy filmed across the street from the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley in Hollywood, and Billy appears at Evans Photo Studio where Lloyd filmed Look Pleasant Please , below, and at the Bergstrom mansion appearing in Keaton's Cops , Houdini's The Grim Game , and Web...

Here's a high def copy of His Day Out hosted by Eye Filmmuseum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARyEqsDYVs0

We applaud Dave Glass and Dave Wyatt who join the growing ranks of silent film superheroes preserving and restoring classic films, and making them available on home video to grateful fans. Their latest two-disc Blu-ray release contains over 5 hours of Billy Bevan comedies. Lizzies of the Field (1924...

Buster Keaton filmed Steamboat Bill, Jr. in Sacramento, along the west bank of the Sacramento River, across from what is now Discovery Park, barely a mile from the State Capitol Building. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/steamboat-pan-04-side-by-side.jpg This post shows exactly wh...