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- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!
- Replies: 2
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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
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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!
– read more https://wp.me/p11nfB-5Nc
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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
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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...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 12:38 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Buster Keaton and WC Fields Cross Paths - Again
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Buster Keaton and WC Fields Cross Paths - Again
Buster Keaton and WC Fields filmed beside the same apartment in Astoria Queens, but they also filmed near Buster’s studio, and the 100 year old storage building still standing at 6372 Santa Monica Blvd. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/00.jpg https://silentlocations.files.wordpres...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 12:45 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chaplin Keaton Coogan filming on Sanchez revealed during THE KID
- Replies: 0
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Chaplin Keaton Coogan filming on Sanchez revealed during THE KID
#CharlieChaplin in POLICE #BusterKeaton in NEIGHBORS #JackieCoogan in MY BOY – each filmed on Sanchez, revealed during a brief glimpse from THE KID https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/000-trio.jpg Read more at https://silentlocations.com/2023/10/14/chaplin-keaton-and-coogan-on-sanche...
- Thu Jun 08, 2023 6:31 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: The General – new visual discoveries
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- Views: 2672
The General – new visual discoveries
This short video reveals several new visual discoveries from The General - watch on YouTube for full screen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOy5NUcjonY https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/general-still-standing.jpg https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/general-history.jpg
- Sat Jun 03, 2023 12:03 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Wonderful Wanda Wiley - Lost on Beaudry
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1539
Wonderful Wanda Wiley - Lost on Beaudry
A new post about the Wonderful Wanda Wiley, a sadly forgotten silent film comedienne, and the lost apartment at 327 Beaudry that once played her home in A Thrilling Romance (1926). https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/wanda-at-beaudry.jpg Read more here - https://wp.me/p11nfB-5vE - th...
- Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:04 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Mabel Normand – “one of the gamest girls in pictures”
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Mabel Normand – “one of the gamest girls in pictures”
Mabel Normand – “one of the gamest girls in pictures” – tied to RR tracks, climbing roofs, confronting lions.
Read about Mabel’s trio of triumphs here
https://wp.me/p11nfB-5ul
Read about Mabel’s trio of triumphs here
https://wp.me/p11nfB-5ul