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While much has been written about Keaton’s loss of control working for MGM, What No Beer? (1932), Buster's final MGM picture, contains a pure, elaborately staged “Keatonesque” moment, when Buster struggles with a truck load of beer barrels on a steep hill, recalling the avalanche scenes from his sil...

Arbuckle and Keaton filmed Oh Doctor! (1917) at the Biograph Studios 100 years ago in the Bronx, near Crotona Park. Many settings from the film are still recognizable, and even appear in the early 60s sitcom Car 54 Where Are You? https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/oh-doctor-1979-mar...

Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John, and Buster Keaton must have had special fun making their Comique film Good Night Nurse (1918), leaving their Long Beach studio behind to film certain scenes at the Arrowhead Hot Springs resort 75 miles to the east. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/pan...

One of Chaplin's first scenes upon returning to California from Chicago in January 1915 was filming A Night Out beside Chick Leddy's saloon in San Jose, still standing, and now home to a high tech company. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/a-night-out-pan-chicks.jpg Read more here ...

Buster filmed The Haunted House at the Bonebrake Mansion shortly before it was demolished to make way for the Auto Club headquarters. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/haunted-house-02.jpg Read more here https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/buster-keatons-haunted-house/...

You can purchase a 3 DVD set of 14 Hallroom Boys shorts at this eBay link. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hallroom-Boys-Silent-Comedies-Sid-Smith-Edward-Flanagan-Neely-Edwards-DVD-/261419859403?epid=1625035432&hash=item3cddd67dcb:g:ipMAAOxyoVZTHS-~ The image quality of these 9.5mm films is quite good c...

Safety Last! and High Flyers - side by side



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Chaplin's Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) and the Lois Weber historical epic The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916), starring Anna Pavlova in her only film role, both share scenes filmed at an early Hollywood landmark - the Castle Sans Souci mansion. The owner's prior castle mansion was later purchased b...

My sense is Lloyd used the setting first, as Strother climbed the 12-story International Bank Building for Safety Last! on September 17, 1922, and thus likely climbed the Dresden much earlier that summer. The Hall Room Boys released 16 shorts in 1922, every 3-4 weeks, with High Flyers debuting on De...

The building stunt scenes were filmed above the Hill Street Tunnel (see URL below), but remarkably the scene where they start climbing the building from street level, at 9:48, is the Dresden Apartment, the very same building, same camera angles, appearing early in Safety Last! , when Harold's friend...