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Here's a fun and sharp print of Gale Henry's Her First Flame (1920).

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The voting polling stations, including Solomon Weisman's barber shop, were at 6224-6226 Santa Monica Blvd., between Vine and Gower, not far from the Keaton Studio.

Fun discoveries from new Flicker Alley collection of solo Stan Laurel or Oliver Hardy films. No, not The Music Box steps, but Stan in 1922 in The Pest . https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/the-pest-then-and-now.jpg The full address on Cove Avenue is in the post below https://silentlo...

Historic views of the rural Hollywood site between Sunset and De Longpre, at La Brea, that would become the Charlie Chaplin Studio. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/p15150coll2_4224_full-3.jpg Where? This post shows the exact spot, along with more time-travel views https://wp.me/p...

Sat Jan 16 @ noon https://esotouric.com/ , L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company hosts my live virtual silent cinema scavenger hunt through L.A.’s historic Westlake neighborhood. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/pages-from-silentechoeswebinar.jpg Travel in the footsteps of...

Mary Pickford’s A Beast at Bay , directed by D.W. Griffith, portends his 1916 feature Intolerance , overlaps with later films starring Mabel Normand, Douglas Fairbanks, and Buster Keaton, and reveals the future site of LAX (!), the Los Angeles International Airport. But faint-hearted viewers in 1912...

Bystanders often appear in silent film, a charming reminder of the romance of early Hollywood. But few were more blatant than Buster’s brazen bystanders when filming Cops https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/00-buster-brazen-bystanders_page_2.jpg Is this chap channeling The Jolly Gree...

A remarkable episode of The Beverly Hillbillies includes an impassioned appeal by Hedda Hopper to preserve Hollywood history, while Jed attempts to atone for Mary Pickford’s vandalism by patching over her handprints at the Chinese Theater forecourt, and Miss Hathaway and Jethro Bodine channel Nita N...

A Charlie Chaplin crossword puzzle to promote City Lights! So many fun discoveries at the Chaplin Archives https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/ch00693006-crossword-puzzle-no-answers.jpg The first clue, one across, seven letters is “First name of greatest comedian in Motion Pictures.”...

Ghostly Buster beside a church later lost by fire, Harold and Bebe at an abandoned home, Harold and Mabel fleeing fate at a lost train station, and innocent views before Wm. Desmond Taylor’s murder! https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/0-cops-church-05-2.jpg Destroyed by fire, the chu...

Many clear views of where Charlie Chaplin filmed The Kid and Harold Lloyd filmed From Hand to Mouth , provided by a 1917 Lyons & Moran comedy What A Clue Will Do . Just a few examples below https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/what-a-clue-will-do-frames_page_01-1.jpg https://silen...