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- Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:52 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: A Bit Found of Missing Footage From The Cameraman
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A Bit Found of Missing Footage From The Cameraman
The brief missing scene of Buster trying to film the admiral leaving a hotel is included in this Internet Archive copy of the film at 17:57. The hotel appearing in the brief shot is the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, that appears in Chaplin's City Lights. http://archive.org/details/busterkeatonthecameraman...
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 7:32 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: More Discoveries from the new version of The Blacksmith
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Re: More Discoveries from the new version of The Blacksmith
Well, for me it's not a question of which version is definitive. What is exciting is that the version found in Argentina contains unique sequences, sets, and characters, that do not appear in any other version of the movie. So it is not simply a matter of choosing from alternate takes appearing in d...
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:54 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: More Discoveries from the new version of The Blacksmith
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More Discoveries from the new version of The Blacksmith
Susan Buhrman has found newspaper accounts that show Buster Keaton first finished filming The Blacksmith in August/Septemeber 1921, which received a bad review in the January 1922 issue of Photoplay Magazine . The movie was pulled from the release schedule, and not formally released in the US until ...
- Sat Jul 20, 2013 4:28 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: What the new scenes from The Blacksmith teach us
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What the new scenes from The Blacksmith teach us
The newly discovered scenes from The Blacksmith, as shown in this post, tell us how Buster Keaton made movies at and adjacent to his small studio in Hollywood, and when he covered over his open air filming stage. http://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/found-a-new-version-of-keatons-the-blac...
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:40 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Solved at Last - the Safety Last Mystery Building
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Solved at Last - the Safety Last Mystery Building
You can read where and how Harold Lloyd filmed Safety Last! at my Silent Locations blog. The latest post shows the now barely recognizable 4 story building Bill Strother climbs at the beginning of the movie. http://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/solved-at-last-the-safety-last-mystery-build...