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- Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:07 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Lois Weber early Hollywood views
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Lois Weber early Hollywood views
Lois Weber‘s innovative and aptly titled home invasion thriller Suspense (1913) provides remarkable views of early Hollywood at the dawn of the movie industry. A young mother, home alone (also portrayed by Ms. Weber) telephones her husband working late that a tramp is breaking into their home. When ...
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 8:17 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: The Kid Brother - Close to Home at the Lasky Ranch
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The Kid Brother - Close to Home at the Lasky Ranch
The Criterion Collection release of Harold Lloyd's masterpiece The Kid Brother https://www.criterion.com/films/28499-the-kid-brother is loaded with special interviews, two rare shorts, and my visual essay Close to Home describing where and how the movie was staged, primarily at the Lasky Ranch. http...
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 8:04 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Mary Pickford's Daddy-Long-Legs Part One
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Mary Pickford's Daddy-Long-Legs Part One
The former Occidental College Hall of Letters has an incredible story. Abandoned in 1914, the Hall once appeared with Presidents Taft and Roosevelt, and later in Mary Pickford’s Daddy Long Legs (1919) and in Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921). Mary filmed orphanage exteriors on all sides of the buildi...
- Sat Sep 07, 2019 4:10 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Keaton's Sherlock Schindler
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Keaton's Sherlock Schindler
Buster Keaton’s wild motorcycle ride in Sherlock Jr. passes by the architecturally significant Schindler House still standing on Kings Road in Los Angeles. Read more here - https://silentlocations.com/2019/08/20/buster-keatons-sherlock-schindler/ https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/s...
- Sat May 25, 2019 2:10 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Keaton Studio plaque dedication - Silent Echoes
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Keaton Studio plaque dedication - Silent Echoes
My brief speech at the Keaton Studio plaque dedication last June 16, 2018. I first thought the link said "Plague Bengtson!" :)
https://youtu.be/dXKIyBAhRGI
Cheers, John
https://youtu.be/dXKIyBAhRGI
Cheers, John
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 11:08 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Lloyd Chaplin Pickfair and Keaton - Neighbors All
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Lloyd Chaplin Pickfair and Keaton - Neighbors All
Not directly film related, but this post shows how Lloyd, Chaplin, Pickford-Fairbanks, and Keaton once all lived very close to each other. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/c-4686_8-4-view-color.jpg To decipher the image, and see further views, read more here - https://silentlocati...
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 12:34 am
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Hollywood Snapshots 1922
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Hollywood Snapshots 1922
This Hollywood PR film https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/hollywood-snapshots-1922# includes many unique views of early Hollywood, including street level views of the Famous Players - Lasky Studios on Vine, that I've never seen before. Lot of fun details and locations, i...
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 12:21 am
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: SOFT SHOES (1925) Harry Carey
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Re: SOFT SHOES (1925) Harry Carey
This movie shares many historic locations appearing in films with Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Stan Laurel. It really is a time machine. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/soft-shoes-sfsff-1.jpg I've written a post all about it https://silentlocations.com/2018/03/23/restoratio...
- Sun Feb 10, 2019 10:30 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Tour 1925 Hollywood w Harry Langdon in His Marriage Wow
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Tour 1925 Hollywood w Harry Langdon in His Marriage Wow
Tour 1925 Hollywood with Harry Langdon and Vernon Dent in Harry’s short comedy His Marriage Wow . https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/his-marriage-wow-12-grauman-.jpg https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/his-marriage-wow-12-grauman-1-1.jpg https://silentlocations.files...
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 9:18 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Richard Dix rooftop stunt matches Laurel & Hardy's "Liberty"
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Richard Dix rooftop stunt matches Laurel & Hardy's "Liberty"
Richard Dix slips from a prison hospital roof in “Day of Reckoning” (1933), filmed at 939 S. Broadway, the same spot Laurel & Hardy used when scrambling around a construction site in “Liberty” (1929). What’s more, Our Gang filmed there first for “The Old Wallop” (1927), and Our Gang star Spanky ...