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- Sat May 04, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Caught on Film - Buster Keaton's The Cameraman
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Caught on Film - Buster Keaton's The Cameraman
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...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:24 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Silent Hollywood’s Studio Magic Mile
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Silent Hollywood’s Studio Magic Mile
At the peak of their careers, silent Hollywood’s biggest stars all worked within one mile of each other – just a three-minute-drive in light traffic. Video includes “new” images of Pickford-Fairbanks Studio. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GGiK1Sr2U This decade old post explains the aerial view in ...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Stunt Birds of a Feather – Movie Pilot Frank Clarke, Harold Lloyd, and Dorothy Devore
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Stunt Birds of a Feather – Movie Pilot Frank Clarke, Harold Lloyd, and Dorothy Devore
Columbia Studios Screen Snapshots captured pioneer Hollywood stunt pilot/actor Frank Clarke flying an airplane from the roof of the Los Angeles Railroad Building downtown. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/000-railway-10.jpg Seen here under construction, before a later building wou...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
- Replies: 7
- Views: 20524
Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
Is it me, or do these three new books about Charlie Chaplin listed on Amazon seem to have something in common?
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:26 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15495
Re: Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!
I know nothing about AI, but the Snub video was likely created and posted with one push of a button. When the LA Times ran a story in 2021 about efforts to recognize the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd alley, an unintentionally hilarious AI-generated video popped up, narrating the article text matched with inc...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15495
Re: Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!
The "narrator" blathered non-stop in generic platitudes without actually saying anything. He pronounced "show biz" as "show BEES." The closing line "Snub's work lives [rhymes with hives] on" suggests they need to upgrade their AI.
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 12:16 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Historic Hollywood Found In "Lost" Films
- Replies: 0
- Views: 14792
Historic Hollywood Found In "Lost" Films
Bits and pieces of Hollywood history appear in little-known comedies and promotional films – studio entrances, Sessue Hayakawa’s home and pet dog house!
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- Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Solved! – Buster Keaton’s 100 Year Old Three Ages Bungalow
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Solved! – Buster Keaton’s 100 Year Old Three Ages Bungalow
100 years later, ripples in time from a “lost” film reveal the Buster Keaton bungalow from Three Ages , still standing at El Centro and Leland - read more https://wp.me/p11nfB-5Ld https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/00-3-ages-pan-11-extra-16-9.jpg Buster’s Roman Age family home was a...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Buster Keaton's San Francisco footsteps
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6523
Re: Buster Keaton's San Francisco footsteps
I have to wonder what they were thinking with the Lombard layout. That just seems like a recipe for MORE accidents. It was a steep, brick street, so the hairpin turns lessened the slope and slowed down traffic. Remarkably it was a TWO-WAY street for about 15 years! But back then no one knew about i...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Buster Keaton's San Francisco footsteps
- Replies: 3
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Buster Keaton's San Francisco footsteps
Buster filmed scenes from Day Dreams (1922) and The Navigator (1924) across San Francisco. Most locations look remarkably unchanged a century later. My latest YouTube video reveals every SF locale, intercut with scenes where Buster “cheated” by also filming in Hollywood and Oakland instead. http://w...