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Buster Keaton’s ‘failed’ rooftop leap between buildings during his first feature comedy Three Ages (1923) was one of the most remarkable stunts of his career. https://silentlocations.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/planned-leap-1.jpg The story goes Buster accidentally missed the second building, whic...

My Kino Lorber bonus program. So many locations – Glendale train station, Exposition Park, the LA Coliseum, Newport Beach, and even walking beside the Keaton Studio fence.

Criterion bonus program how Harold Lloyd made The Freshman

The movie has scenes filmed on New High Street matching Chaplin in The Kid, and Harold in Hand to Mouth, AND, scenes at the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley in Hollywood, matching Houdini in The Grim Game. https://silentlocations.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/what-a-clue-will-do-frames_page_01-1.jpg Read...

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Bits and pieces of Hollywood history appear in little-known films – studio entrances, Sessue Hayakawa’s home and pet dog house



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From studio sets to the Venice Pier, a lone scene in N. Hollywood, and the poignant finale in Glendale, where one tree that witnessed the filming still survives. https://silentlocations.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/0-banner-3.jpg https://silentlocations.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/0-banner-4.jp...

Wow - thank you for solving this Robert! I studied the sign but hadn't yet figured it out. Here's the sign from Safety Last!

Thank you Richard - everything you say makes sense, and I had not considered producers would downplay accidents at the time in order to remain insurable for future projects. At this point I concede it seems more likely than not that Buster's fall was indeed an accident. But, it still flies in the fa...

How reliable a narrator was Buster? I lack the citation, but my notes say in a 1929 interview Buster describes the high dive scene in Hard Luck , with the left base of the “T” shaped pool covered with thin wax, allowing him to safely dive into the pool deck. This conveniently ignores how they actual...