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- Sun Jan 12, 2020 12:43 am
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Happy Roaring Twenties New Year at Keaton's Bungalow
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Happy Roaring Twenties New Year at Keaton's Bungalow
Happy New Year everyone! Buster Keaton made his 1929 New Year's Resolutions at the small bungalow he rented just outside of MGM before being forced to reside at “Keaton's Kennel” inside the studio lot. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/1929.jpg https://silentlocations.files.wordpre...
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 6:20 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Keaton at the Selig Studio "Prison"
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Keaton at the Selig Studio "Prison"
Chaplin’s Tillie’s Punctured Romance solved a Keaton location years later, filming a "prison" scene at the Selig Studio for Convict 13 . https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/3-view-2.jpg While details must wait for a later post, Buster also filmed the many Convict 13 golf sc...
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:11 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Allright, we'll try this again.........
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Re: Allright, we'll try this again.........
Just pre-ordered my copy. Thank you so much for making these films widely available.
Cheers, John
Cheers, John
- Fri Dec 27, 2019 11:39 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Keaton's Scarecrow Adobe
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Keaton's Scarecrow Adobe
Guest blogger Jeffrey Castel de Oro [url]@jeffcdo[/url] reveals the amazing history of this lost adobe appearing in Buster Keaton’s The Scarecrow . https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/jeff-pan_page_1.jpg Using hidden clues in various archival photographs, Jeff pinpoints the very spot...
- Fri Nov 22, 2019 1:35 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Early Chaplin Views of the Selig Studio
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Early Chaplin Views of the Selig Studio
Charlie Chaplin filmed some of the earliest scenes of his career beside the Selig Polyscope Studio, the first permanent studio in Los Angeles. Built in 1909 it stood just two blocks north of the Keystone Studio. The studio appears several times during Tillie's Punctured Romance . https://silentlocat...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 2:56 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: So much LA history - Pickford's Daddy Long Legs Part 2
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So much LA history - Pickford's Daddy Long Legs Part 2
100 years later, beautiful mansions and rock pools survive, sunken gardens and train depots do not. There is so much LA history in part two of Mary Pickford’s Daddy Long Legs (1919). https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/ddl-shots_page_1.jpg https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/...
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 1:38 am
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Lois Weber's Suspense in early Beverly Hills
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Lois Weber's Suspense in early Beverly Hills
Lois Weber staged the climax to her 1913 home invasion thriller Suspense in “rural” Beverly Hills near Doheny and Sunset, where Charlie Chaplin later dressed as a tree for Shoulder Arms (1918), and Buster Keaton filmed two newly recovered scenes from The Blacksmith (1922). Weber also filmed Lost By ...
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 1:11 am
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chico, Harpo, and Cagney at the Brunswig Mansion
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Chico, Harpo, and Cagney at the Brunswig Mansion
Imagine the star power – in 1931 Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, and James Cagney all once stood on the former Brunswig Mansion front steps, 3528 West Adams, filming Monkey Business and Blonde Crazy . Read more below https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/harpo-chico-and-cagney.jpg https://sile...
- Fri Oct 25, 2019 12:26 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Harry Houdini Solves Earliest Chaplin Filming Location
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Harry Houdini Solves Earliest Chaplin Filming Location
Clues from Harry Houdini helped to solve the downtown locations where Chaplin filmed his very first movie. Read more - https://silentlocations.com/2019/09/12/harry-houdini-solves-a-charlie-chaplin-mystery/ https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/clues-from-harry-houdini-helped-to-solve-t...
- Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:46 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: The Nearly Last Safety Last! Joke
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The Nearly Last Safety Last! Joke
Harold Lloyd employed 17 downtown buildings for his “thrill” stunt climbing movies – 14 survive. The final discovery, the concluding joke of Safety Last! with Noah Young still chasing after Bill Strother, was filmed looking down at them along 2nd and Main from the extant 10-story Higgins Building. h...