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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...

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 ...

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...

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...