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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...

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 ...

Rob Farr wrote:Lane's loop-de-loop stunt at 18:31 is one of the greatest in film comedy history.

How did he do that? I'm stumped. There seems insufficient forward speed for his loop to be genuine. Was there a wire? Was there a hand-hold at the top? Thanks for pointing this out.

One big surprise from the beautiful new Kino Lorber Blu-ray release Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers is witnessing the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd alley in Hollywood appear in several films, each made years before the gents all filmed there. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/The-Purple-Ma...

Every scene from the beginning of Chaplin’s The Kid (1921) is now identified. He blended scenes filmed in Hollywood, south of the Plaza, and north of downtown on New High Street, where Harold Lloyd filmed, all in these brief scenes. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/plaza-view-west...

These and other fun publicity photos of Buster were filmed on Grant Avenue in front of the bungalow Keaton rented just outside of MGM, before they built the Keaton’s Kennel dressing rooms for him on the studio lot. That's a former Culver City mortuary at back visible through Keaton's tennis racket. ...

I may post this some day, but Billy West filmed Don't Be Foolish beside this two story home that once stood on Cosmo at the east end of the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd alley. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/dont-be-foolish-billy-west-internet-archive-13.jpg It appears in Keaton's Neighb...

Oliver Hardy and Colleen Moore also filmed by the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd alley in Hollywood, across the street. It’s amazing how everyone filmed on this one block. Here's Hardy in Billy West's Chaplin knock-off His Day Out (1918). Thanks Richard for letting us know about this film being online (see re...

Buster Keaton and W.C. Fields filmed movies beside the same Astoria apartment building nine years apart. They literally faced each other onscreen. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/the-chemist-running-wild-pan.jpg Read more about Keaton’s The Chemist (1936) and Fields’ Running Wild...

D'oh - of course he filmed three in Astoria. But Mixed Magic didn't have any identifiable exteriors, and hence purged from my frontal lobes.

John