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- Thu Jun 15, 2017 2:51 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: HIGH FLYERS (1922) Sid Smith, Zip Monberg
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Re: HIGH FLYERS (1922) Sid Smith, Zip Monberg
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...
- Sun May 21, 2017 8:19 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: The FIAF tour - 25 silent movies in one Hollywood block
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The FIAF tour - 25 silent movies in one Hollywood block
Last month I gave a series of Hollywood walking tours for members of FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives, which held their annual congress this year in Hollywood as guests of the Motion Picture Academy and UCLA. Here is a page from the brochure I prepared for FIAF and the Film Librar...
- Mon May 08, 2017 12:53 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Keaton - the geography of one gag - The Goat
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Keaton - the geography of one gag - The Goat
This post shows how Buster stitched together seven scenes, all filmed closed to his studio home, to create one gag for The Goat (1921). The Bell & Howell building at the corner of Santa Monica Blvd and Lillian Way (2, 4, 6 below) still stands, a block north of his former studio site. https://sil...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 2:09 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Keaton and Steve McQueen's Bullitt
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Keaton and Steve McQueen's Bullitt
Buster Keaton crossed paths with Orson Welles in Venice, California ( The High Sign and Touch of Evil ), and with Alfred Hitchcock in San Francisco ( Day Dreams and Vertigo ). But Keaton also crossed paths with ‘King of Cool’ actor Steve McQueen filming stunts in the City by the Bay. https://silentl...
- Sun Apr 09, 2017 7:55 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Keaton and Orson Welles
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Keaton and Orson Welles
Orson Welles greatly admired Keaton - I doubt they realized they each filmed at the same spot in Venice, California. The High Sign and Touch of Evil . https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/high-sign-touch-of-evil-pan.jpg Read more here https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/k...
- Fri Mar 31, 2017 8:15 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Keaton and Hitchcock cross paths in VERTIGO
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Keaton and Hitchcock cross paths in VERTIGO
Filmed on location in San Francisco, Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Vertigo (1958) provides tantalizing mid-century glimpses of the City in sparkling VistaVision color. Remarkably, when Scottie (James Stewart) traces Madeleine (Kim Novak) by car back to his own apartment, they cross paths twice with...
- Sun Mar 19, 2017 8:36 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: A peek over the Metro backlot fence - Cops and Go West
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A peek over the Metro backlot fence - Cops and Go West
In this rather unremarkable photo of the recently completed addition to the Vine Street Elementary School in Hollywood you can see something quite remarkable over the fence - a view of the Metro backlot where Buster Keaton filmed scenes from Cops and Go West https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.c...
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 7:35 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Inside Chaplin's "The Kid" maternity hospital
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Inside Chaplin's "The Kid" maternity hospital
This post allows you to see inside the 'maternity hospital' Chaplin used in The Kid . The building was once part of the original Occidental College campus, visited by Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. Remarkably the building still stands as an apartment block. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.co...
- Tue Dec 20, 2016 1:46 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Keaton's Seven Chances - Warren Beatty's Bulworth
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Keaton's Seven Chances - Warren Beatty's Bulworth
Would you believe both movies were filmed at the same church?
https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2016/12/15/buster-keaton-seven-chances-and-warren-beatty/
Cheers, John
https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2016/12/15/buster-keaton-seven-chances-and-warren-beatty/
Cheers, John
- Tue Dec 13, 2016 9:53 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Buster Keaton, The General, and Animal House
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Buster Keaton, The General, and Animal House
What's the connection? Check out below.
https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/buster-keaton-the-general-and-animal-house/
Cheers, John
https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/buster-keaton-the-general-and-animal-house/
Cheers, John