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Desert vistas, frozen in time – Buster Keaton and Brown Eyes in Go West (1925)



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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...

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 ...

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...

Criterion’s Blu-ray of The Cameraman (now 50% off at Barnes & Noble - hurry) features the Time Travelers bonus program by Oscar-nominated director Daniel Raim, where I lead historian Marc Wanamaker on a Hollywood tour. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/marc-buster-and-me-3_page...

A ghostly image from Buster Keaton’s Go West spanning 95 years at the back corner of the Binford Lofts. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/go-west-california-warehouse-jcdo-_page_5.jpg The opposite corner portrays the home of the main characters in Zooey Deschanel’s TV show New Girl...

A tourist’s home movies show Buster Keaton filming in New York. But where, and was the crowd gathered to watch Buster, or someone else? https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/city-hall-park_page_4.jpg The images come from Kevin Brownlow’s So Funny It Hurt bonus program, part of Criterio...

A bit of a repeat of Paul's post. Given the production schedules I consider Charlie Chaplin’s A Thief Catcher as likely his 4th onscreen appearance. The background of the movie shows the transformation of the Keystone Studio itself. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/0000-a-thief-ca...

Arbuckle and Keaton filmed on Culver City streets years before Laurel & Hardy, before the Roach Studio had even opened. Full details and many more time travel photos inside. https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/arbuckle-and-keaton-filmed-on-culver-city-streets-years-before-laurel....

https://silentlocations.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/buster-and-natalie_page_1.jpg A continuous take, Natalie and the other person exit the carriage in turn, both land solidly on the ground, and all three actors smoothly cross each other's paths. At right, Buster's legs (box) as he helps Natalie dow...