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- Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:38 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: HippFest Silent Festival Has Begun - Early Hollywood Tour
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HippFest Silent Festival Has Begun - Early Hollywood Tour
Scotland’s annual HippFest silent film festival has begun, this year hosted virtually, https://www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/silent-film-festival/ This Sunday they will be hosting my half-hour documentary, a visual tour exploring early Hollywood as revealed in silent film, with an emphasis on Scotland’...
- Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:07 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Gale Henry - Her First Flame
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Gale Henry - Her First Flame
Here's a fun and sharp print of Gale Henry's Her First Flame (1920).
https://youtu.be/3XqNJNIYrNA
The voting polling stations, including Solomon Weisman's barber shop, were at 6224-6226 Santa Monica Blvd., between Vine and Gower, not far from the Keaton Studio.
https://youtu.be/3XqNJNIYrNA
The voting polling stations, including Solomon Weisman's barber shop, were at 6224-6226 Santa Monica Blvd., between Vine and Gower, not far from the Keaton Studio.
- Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:41 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Fun discoveries from new Laurel OR Hardy set
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Fun discoveries from new Laurel OR Hardy set
Fun discoveries from new Flicker Alley collection of solo Stan Laurel or Oliver Hardy films. No, not The Music Box steps, but Stan in 1922 in The Pest . https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/the-pest-then-and-now.jpg The full address on Cove Avenue is in the post below https://silentlo...
- Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:13 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Future Chaplin Studio site in early Hollywood
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Future Chaplin Studio site in early Hollywood
Historic views of the rural Hollywood site between Sunset and De Longpre, at La Brea, that would become the Charlie Chaplin Studio. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/p15150coll2_4224_full-3.jpg Where? This post shows the exact spot, along with more time-travel views https://wp.me/p...
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 11:34 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Esotouric Virtual Silent Locations Webinar Tour
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Esotouric Virtual Silent Locations Webinar Tour
Sat Jan 16 @ noon https://esotouric.com/ , L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company hosts my live virtual silent cinema scavenger hunt through L.A.’s historic Westlake neighborhood. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/pages-from-silentechoeswebinar.jpg Travel in the footsteps of...
- 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: 3863
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...