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- 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...
- Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:07 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Lois Weber early Hollywood views
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Lois Weber early Hollywood views
Lois Weber‘s innovative and aptly titled home invasion thriller Suspense (1913) provides remarkable views of early Hollywood at the dawn of the movie industry. A young mother, home alone (also portrayed by Ms. Weber) telephones her husband working late that a tramp is breaking into their home. When ...
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 8:17 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: The Kid Brother - Close to Home at the Lasky Ranch
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The Kid Brother - Close to Home at the Lasky Ranch
The Criterion Collection release of Harold Lloyd's masterpiece The Kid Brother https://www.criterion.com/films/28499-the-kid-brother is loaded with special interviews, two rare shorts, and my visual essay Close to Home describing where and how the movie was staged, primarily at the Lasky Ranch. http...
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 8:04 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Mary Pickford's Daddy-Long-Legs Part One
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Mary Pickford's Daddy-Long-Legs Part One
The former Occidental College Hall of Letters has an incredible story. Abandoned in 1914, the Hall once appeared with Presidents Taft and Roosevelt, and later in Mary Pickford’s Daddy Long Legs (1919) and in Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921). Mary filmed orphanage exteriors on all sides of the buildi...
- Sat Sep 07, 2019 4:10 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Keaton's Sherlock Schindler
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Keaton's Sherlock Schindler
Buster Keaton’s wild motorcycle ride in Sherlock Jr. passes by the architecturally significant Schindler House still standing on Kings Road in Los Angeles. Read more here - https://silentlocations.com/2019/08/20/buster-keatons-sherlock-schindler/ https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/s...
- Sat May 25, 2019 2:10 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Keaton Studio plaque dedication - Silent Echoes
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Keaton Studio plaque dedication - Silent Echoes
My brief speech at the Keaton Studio plaque dedication last June 16, 2018. I first thought the link said "Plague Bengtson!" :)
https://youtu.be/dXKIyBAhRGI
Cheers, John
https://youtu.be/dXKIyBAhRGI
Cheers, John
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 11:08 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Lloyd Chaplin Pickfair and Keaton - Neighbors All
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Lloyd Chaplin Pickfair and Keaton - Neighbors All
Not directly film related, but this post shows how Lloyd, Chaplin, Pickford-Fairbanks, and Keaton once all lived very close to each other. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/c-4686_8-4-view-color.jpg To decipher the image, and see further views, read more here - https://silentlocati...
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 12:34 am
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Hollywood Snapshots 1922
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Hollywood Snapshots 1922
This Hollywood PR film https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/hollywood-snapshots-1922# includes many unique views of early Hollywood, including street level views of the Famous Players - Lasky Studios on Vine, that I've never seen before. Lot of fun details and locations, i...
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 12:21 am
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: SOFT SHOES (1925) Harry Carey
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Re: SOFT SHOES (1925) Harry Carey
This movie shares many historic locations appearing in films with Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Stan Laurel. It really is a time machine. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/soft-shoes-sfsff-1.jpg I've written a post all about it https://silentlocations.com/2018/03/23/restoratio...