A Bit Found of Missing Footage From The Cameraman
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:52 pm
The brief missing scene of Buster trying to film the admiral leaving a hotel is included in this Internet Archive copy of the film at 17:57. The hotel appearing in the brief shot is the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, that appears in Chaplin's City Lights.
http://archive.org/details/busterkeatonthecameraman
Here is a similar view of the hotel today on Google Maps
http://goo.gl/maps/QFFai
Richard Roberts writes how the missing footage was likely cut from the Keaton negative to assist when re-making the Red Skelton version of The Cameraman, and then not returned to the Keaton negative when they were finished.
I wrote in a N-ville post a while back how some footage of the office buildings and elevators from King Vidor's The Crowd appear as stock footage in Keaton's What No Beer?
http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10668
Here is my post about the hotel and Chaplin's City Lights
http://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/chaplins-beverly-wilshire-cigar/
Cheers, John
http://archive.org/details/busterkeatonthecameraman
Here is a similar view of the hotel today on Google Maps
http://goo.gl/maps/QFFai
Richard Roberts writes how the missing footage was likely cut from the Keaton negative to assist when re-making the Red Skelton version of The Cameraman, and then not returned to the Keaton negative when they were finished.
I wrote in a N-ville post a while back how some footage of the office buildings and elevators from King Vidor's The Crowd appear as stock footage in Keaton's What No Beer?
http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10668
Here is my post about the hotel and Chaplin's City Lights
http://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/chaplins-beverly-wilshire-cigar/
Cheers, John