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Criterion bonus program how Harold Lloyd made The Freshman

The movie has scenes filmed on New High Street matching Chaplin in The Kid, and Harold in Hand to Mouth, AND, scenes at the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley in Hollywood, matching Houdini in The Grim Game. https://silentlocations.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/what-a-clue-will-do-frames_page_01-1.jpg Read...

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Bits and pieces of Hollywood history appear in little-known films – studio entrances, Sessue Hayakawa’s home and pet dog house



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From studio sets to the Venice Pier, a lone scene in N. Hollywood, and the poignant finale in Glendale, where one tree that witnessed the filming still survives. https://silentlocations.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/0-banner-3.jpg https://silentlocations.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/0-banner-4.jp...

Wow - thank you for solving this Robert! I studied the sign but hadn't yet figured it out. Here's the sign from Safety Last!

Thank you Richard - everything you say makes sense, and I had not considered producers would downplay accidents at the time in order to remain insurable for future projects. At this point I concede it seems more likely than not that Buster's fall was indeed an accident. But, it still flies in the fa...

How reliable a narrator was Buster? I lack the citation, but my notes say in a 1929 interview Buster describes the high dive scene in Hard Luck , with the left base of the “T” shaped pool covered with thin wax, allowing him to safely dive into the pool deck. This conveniently ignores how they actual...

I wrote a post a while back about Buster’s Hard Luck dive, illustrated with photos and frame grabs. The dive was staged beside a “T” shaped pool, with part of the T covered over with paper or some other material to look like brick. Buster’s trajectory during the dive seems to defy the laws of physic...

Not just all the locations, moving to M-G-M, and Buster’s rented bungalow right outside, hidden details reveal how filming at long-familiar locales, and near where he had once worked happily with mentor/best friend Roscoe Arbuckle, must have given Keaton some comfort during this difficult transition...