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- Thu May 28, 2020 1:09 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Roscoe Arbuckle Cameo in Our Hospitality----NOT!
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Re: Roscoe Arbuckle Cameo in Our Hospitality----NOT!
https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/buster-and-natalie_page_1.jpg A continuous take, Natalie and the other person exit the carriage in turn, both land solidly on the ground, and all three actors smoothly cross each other's paths. At right, Buster's legs (box) as he helps Natalie dow...
- Thu May 28, 2020 1:09 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Roscoe Arbuckle Cameo in Our Hospitality----NOT!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10326
Re: Roscoe Arbuckle Cameo in Our Hospitality----NOT!
https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/side-by-side_page_1.jpg The Hayseed (1919) at left. Each person is standing full height. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/hey-pop-1932-at-left-smooth-mouth.jpg At left, Roscoe in Hey Pop (1932).
- Sat May 16, 2020 3:51 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Harold Lloyd’s Earliest Days Filming in Edendale
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Harold Lloyd’s Earliest Days Filming in Edendale
Everything is connected. After a brief stint at Keystone, Harold Lloyd returned to Edendale to make early movies at the Norbig Studio – even filming at the same corner as Roscoe Arbuckle. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/00000o-the-turreted-building.jpg Read more to see great phot...
- Sun May 03, 2020 1:40 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: THERE HE GOES (1925) Harry Langdon excerpt
- Replies: 1
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Re: THERE HE GOES (1925) Harry Langdon excerpt
Thanks for posting this. Langdon filmed this at the now lost home of J. Ross Clark.
- Sun May 03, 2020 1:21 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: More backlot scenes from Keaton's Our Hospitality
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More backlot scenes from Keaton's Our Hospitality
Peek over the future Paramount studio fence to see where Buster Keaton filmed many Our Hospitality scenes - including the waterfall rescue and Natalie’s down South home town. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/000-pages-from-our-hospitality-twitter-2.jpg There are many details revea...
- Thu Apr 16, 2020 6:32 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Harold Lloyd in ON THE BEAM - 1921 Mutoscope
- Replies: 5
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Re: Harold Lloyd in ON THE BEAM - 1921 Mutoscope
Hi Ed - thanks for posting this. I saw this too at the Musee Mecanique near Fisherman's Wharf in SF.
https://museemecanique.com/
Cheers, John
https://museemecanique.com/
Cheers, John
- Thu Apr 16, 2020 5:33 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Why Keaton Hides the Santa Monica Pier in The Cameraman
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Why Keaton Hides the Santa Monica Pier in The Cameraman
Buster Keaton filmed an elaborate soaked-in-the-rain automobile tracking shot during The Cameraman on the Santa Monica Pier. Yet nothing during the sequence betrays it was filmed on a pier. Why film at such extraordinary site but hide it from the audience? My only thought – somehow easy access to oc...
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 6:51 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Harold Lloyd Doug MacLean and Ben Model
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Harold Lloyd Doug MacLean and Ben Model
Thanks to Ben Model’s new DVD release The Douglas MacLean Collection we see Harold Lloyd and Doug MacLean crossed paths many times. Both filmed high-rise stunts at the Hill St Tunnel, and home-town train scenes at the tiny Hynes depot, a one-time SoCal dairy capital, and beside the Palms Garage buil...
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:05 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: New Keystone Kops book
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New Keystone Kops book
Hey everyone – my friend Lon Davis’s new anthology book CHASE! A Tribute to the Keystone Cops is now available for sale. It features articles by many authors and historians – see table below. It’s the first book devoted specifically to the Kops, and the proceeds will be allocated to silent film pres...
- Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:08 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Pickford on the Brunton lot - with Keaton and the Talmadges
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Pickford on the Brunton lot - with Keaton and the Talmadges
Mary Pickford staged The Hoodlum (1919) on a Brunton Studio backlot set later appearing in several Keaton films, Lloyd Williams filmed there too. There are even ties to the Talmadge sisters. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/0000-mary-pickford-buster-keaton-1024.jpg There's much to...