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https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/the-chaplin-keaton-lloyd-hollywood-alley-blog_page_04.jpg The Kid, Cops , and Safety Last! were all filmed at the same Hollywood alley you can still visit today. You can read more at this link. https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/the-...

The new Lobster restored version of Buster’s My Wife’s Relations shows an astonishing new Keaton stunt, Buster’s return visit to a classic apartment house, and yet another example of Buster filming at the Cahuenga-Cosmo alley in Hollywood. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/my-wives...

Several early views of old Los Angeles appear during Bumping Into Broadway (1919), some long demolished, others still standing 97 years later. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7572/26571124940_44ec6385a6_c.jpg Bumping Broadway Cleveland scene_Page_08 by SilentEchoes57 , on Flickr https://silentlocatio...

My latest post shows how Buster filmed a scene from Cops traveling east down Santa Monica Boulevard past Gower, just blocks from his small studio. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1701/26466823891_69acc8702a_z.jpg Drug Pan 2 by SilentEchoes57 , on Flickr https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2016/04/1...

Charlie Chaplin filmed his Mutual comedy shorts (1916-17) at the same small studio where Buster Keaton later filmed his independent shorts and features (1920-28). A rediscovered 1920 aerial photo reveals six new locations used by Chaplin and Keaton. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1637/25366541814_e8...

MICKEY was started on the East Coast, and went through lots of footage and directors (inclusing James Young, J. Farrell McDonald, and Arvid Gillstrom before F. Richard Jones took over and finished it), Production lasted nearly a year with shooting commencing from Summer of 1916 to Spring of 1917, w...

MICKEY was shot all over the place, the racetrack scenes were shot in Phoenix, Arizona at the old Fairgrounds grandstand. RICHARD M ROBERTS Thanks Richard - I didn't know they filmed out of state. Do you know why they filmed in Arizona? I have read that the mountain lake scenes were filmed near LA ...

Read how Mabel Normand cleverly staged a rooftop stunt for her 1918 feature Mickey on a classic Bunker Hill building years before Harold Lloyd filmed his own stunts for Safety Last. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/mickey-pan-03.jpg https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2016/03/07...

Charlie filmed this scene from Work (1915) over 100 years ago in the old produce warehouse section of downtown. Thanks to the amazing clarity of the Essanay Blu-ray restoration from Flicker Alley, we can now see where he filmed, less than a mile from the Bradbury Mansion studio where he made the res...

Roscoe Arbuckle hung from a building in downtown Los Angeles filming The Life of the Party in 1920, more than a year before Harold Lloyd filmed scenes from Never Weaken in 1921, while featuring views of buildings Harold would use filming Safety Last! in 1923. https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/20...