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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).

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...

Thanks for posting this. Langdon filmed this at the now lost home of J. Ross Clark.

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...

Hi Ed - thanks for posting this. I saw this too at the Musee Mecanique near Fisherman's Wharf in SF.

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Cheers, John

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...

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...

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...

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...

It makes sense to cut "the Admiral is coming" scene altogether if the surviving prints don't contain the payoff joke. But, as mentioned, this may have been the hotel's debut screen appearance, so a bit of LA history is lost along with the missing footage.