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- Sat Jan 02, 2021 6:29 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Mary Pickford's A Beast at Bay, LAX, and those abominable bumpy roads
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Mary Pickford's A Beast at Bay, LAX, and those abominable bumpy roads
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...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:10 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Buster's Brazen Bystanders
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Buster's Brazen Bystanders
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...
- Sat Dec 12, 2020 1:52 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Nita Naldi, Jed Clampett, and Hedda’s Hollywood Appeal
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Nita Naldi, Jed Clampett, and Hedda’s Hollywood Appeal
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...
- Sat Nov 28, 2020 1:55 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chaplin crossword puzzle
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- Views: 3751
Chaplin crossword puzzle
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.”...
- Sat Oct 31, 2020 2:04 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Ghosts of Buster, Wm. Desmond Taylor, and more
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Ghosts of Buster, Wm. Desmond Taylor, and more
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...
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:06 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chaplin, Lloyd, Lyons & Moran on New High Street
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Chaplin, Lloyd, Lyons & Moran on New High Street
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...
- Sat Oct 03, 2020 12:38 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Buster frozen in desert time
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- Views: 3717
Buster frozen in desert time
Desert vistas, frozen in time – Buster Keaton and Brown Eyes in Go West (1925)
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- Sun Sep 13, 2020 1:54 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Lyons and Moran - 1919 Hollywood views
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Lyons and Moran - 1919 Hollywood views
Imagine - Hollywood still a town, stately homes, dirt roads, orchards. Travel back to 1919, thanks to Lyons and Moran films https://ebay.to/35Eo0lA by Michael Aus. More images at link below https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/church-duo.jpg https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com...
- Sun Aug 30, 2020 12:12 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: CHASE! A Tribute to the Keystone Cops
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- Views: 3886
CHASE! A Tribute to the Keystone Cops
CHASE! A Tribute to the Keystone Cops https://amzn.to/2YNtjes a major new book honors these still universally recognized icons of silent comedy with an anthology of entertaining and informative essays assembled and edited by Lon & Debra Davis. Historian Sam Gill provides the foreword, joined by ...
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:37 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Keaton's The Goat and Hard Luck at Westlake Park
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Keaton's The Goat and Hard Luck at Westlake Park
Rare vintage (and once classified) photos from the National Archives provide stunning views of early Los Angeles landscapes. Travel back to where Buster Keaton flees Big Joe Roberts in The Goat (1921) at Westlake Park, before the park was divided in two, and re-named for Gen. MacArthur. https://sile...