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- How Harold Lloyd Filmed Safety Last!
- Buster Keaton's Three Ages Leap of Faith
- Leave it to Santa Monica - Beaver and Harold Lloyd
- How Buster Keaton Filmed The General
- Chaplin's The Tramp - 'New' Views of One of Cinema's Most Iconic Scenes
- Keaton's The Cameraman on the Santa Monica Pier
- Keaton and Hitchcock's Vertigo Day Dreams
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- New York Times (see page 5)
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- Examiner – Best 2011 Silent Film Books
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- New York Times – Keaton Review
- 2013 Club TCM in Hollywood
- LA Times 2013
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- Talking Buster Keaton – Neighbors @ 24:30
- Talking Buster Keaton – The Blacksmith @ 11:30
- Nitrateville Radio Interview
- Laurel & Hardy Blogcast Ep. 26 Interview at 22:12
- SFSFF Amazing Tales: Silent Footsteps
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- Buster Keaton’s Cops and Laurel & Hardy 1928 Year Two
- Buster Keaton’s Three Ages Leap of Faith
- Buster Keaton’s Backlot Adventures in Cops
- Silent Location Encore Performances
- Charlie Chaplin’s One A.M. Mystery SOLVED!!
- How Laurel & Hardy Made “Two Tars”
- Buster Keaton Go West – many NEW discoveries on a new YouTube essay
- Buster Keaton – the Great SMILING Stoneface
- Caught On Film – Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman
- Mack Swain’s Santa Monica Adventures with Laurel & Hardy, Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd
- Monty Banks ‘Peaceful Alley’ beside Pickford, Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd
- Silent Comedy’s Bridges of Hollenbeck Park
- Colleen Moore and Buster Keaton Reveal a “Lost” Hollywood Intersection
- Harold Lloyd, Dorothy Devore, Movie Pilot Frank Clarke – Stunt Birds of a Feather
- Historic Hollywood Relics Found In “Lost” Films
- Solved! – Buster Keaton’s 100 Year Old Three Ages Bungalow
- Buster Keaton’s San Francisco footsteps
- Stan Laurel and W.C. Fields Crossed Paths Near the Keaton and Metro Studios
- Keaton and W.C. Fields Cross Paths Again Near Buster’s Studio
- Chaplin, Keaton, and Coogan on Sanchez Street – Three Films Revealed in a Brief Glimpse during The Kid
- How Laurel & Hardy Filmed Duck Soup – Flicker Alley Year One Blu-ray Release
- How Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan Made The Kid at the Plaza de Los Angeles
- The Keaton-Fairbanks Hollywood Fire Station
- Rooftop Vistas from Silent Film – Hal Roach’s “Radio Mad”
- The Ghosts of Trolleys Past – Harold Lloyd’s Haunted Spooks
- Silk Hat Raymond Griffith at Swanky Fremont Place
- Wonderful Wanda Wiley … Who? Part Two – lost on Beaudry
- The Little Tramp’s Screen Debut – Charlie Chaplin’s Kid Autos – They Were What ?!?
- Silent Star Mabel Normand – the Game Girl’s Trio of Triumphs
- Santa Monica’s Slapstick Comedy Cliffs – How Did They Do It?
- Wonderful Wanda Wiley … Who?
- Hiding in plain sight – more cinematic magic from Buster Keaton’s Go West
- Buster Keaton’s “Electric House” Home
- New revelations about Safety Last! and The Kid
- The Kid, Cops, Intolerance revealed in a 125 year old photo
- Harold Lloyd’s “Hot Water” Sherlock turkey troubles
- Flying “Lizzies of the Field” – Part 2
- Jackie Coogan’s Charlie Chaplin’s Lost LA Alley – The Rag Man
- Harold Lloyd’s “Hot Water” “Happy Days” Home
- Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times” Sanitarium Solved
- Billy Bevan’s “Lizzies of the Field” before Griffith Observatory
- What? Buster Keaton’s Studio Appears in Seven Chances!
- Case Closed! How Buster Keaton filmed Sherlock Jr.
- Soft Shoes – Crossing Paths with Chaplin, Laurel, and Lloyd
- Charlie Chaplin’s One A.M. Mystery
- Keaton Sherlock Jr. – Valentino Blood and Sand – at Avalon Silent Film Showcase
- The San Francisco Silent Film Festival returns to live cinema – Steamboat Bill, Jr. – Penrod and Sam
- Buster Keaton’s Lost and Found “Seven Chances” Homes
- Buster Keaton’s riverbank footsteps – Steamboat Bill, Jr.
- SF Silent Film Festival Returns to Live Cinema with Chaplin’s City Lights
- Take the Tour – the Buster Keaton Studio
- Lady Cops (and Harold Lloyd) Reveal 1914 Lost LA Treasures
- Silent Locations YouTube Channel
- Ben Model presents Edward Everett Horton: 8 Silent Comedies
- The Roaring Road – rare ‘new’ views of early Hollywood
- Silent Movie Day celebrates the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley
- Step by silent footstep – how the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley was revealed
- Hollywood Heritage Celebrates the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley
- Solved! Buster Keaton’s Mystery Colegrove Building
- The Kid – Chaplin’s Silent Footsteps tour now on YouTube
- The Kid – Silent Footsteps a Century Ago – Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum Chaplin Days
- Silent Footsteps Now Online – SFSFF Amazing Tales
- Silent Footsteps – SFSFF Amazing Tales Online
- Worth a Thousand Words – Patrick Mate’s Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley Cartoon
- Chaplin’s Bay Area Footsteps
- Charlie, Buster, and Harold Silent Footsteps LA Tour
- Columbo and Mannix Save Us, Again
- Early Hollywood Visual Tour at HippFest 2021
- Buster Keaton’s Early Days on Los Feliz
- Incredible new Laurel “OR” Hardy film collection
- The Lens of History – Hollywood before the Chaplin Studio
- Live Virtual Silent Locations Tour with Esotouric
- Mary Pickford’s “A Beast at Bay” a century before LAX
- Buster’s Brazen Bystanders
- Doug and Mary, Hedda and Jed, The Beverly Hillbillies Hollywood Appeal
- The Remarkable Charlie Chaplin Archives
- Buster, Harold, Mabel, and Doug, and the murder of Wm. Desmond Taylor!
- Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Lyons & Moran – the “good” old days on New High Street
- Buster Keaton’s Go West Desert – “Frozen” in Time
- Time Travel to 1919 Hollywood
- CHASE! A Tribute to the Keystone Cops
- Buster Keaton – Hard Luck, The Goat – closeups at Westlake Park
- Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies
- Buster Keaton – Ghosts of Go West
- Caught on Camera – Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman in New York
- Charlie Chaplin’s Once Lost Film – A Thief Catcher
- Arbuckle and Keaton Filmed in Culver City Years Before Laurel and Hardy
- Harold Lloyd’s Earliest Days Filming in Edendale
- Buster Keaton – More Backlot Scenes From Our Hospitality
- How Laurel and Hardy Filmed Duck Soup
- Keaton’s The Cameraman on the Santa Monica Pier
- Three Good Fellows – Harold Lloyd, Doug MacLean, and Ben Model
- Buster, Harold, and Stymie at the Venice Pier
- Mary Pickford, the Talmadge Sisters, and Buster Keaton at the Brunton Studio
- Keaton’s Missing Scene and Cameraman Tricks
- Silent Comedy’s Crazy Corner
- Happy “Roaring Twenties” New Year at Keaton’s Bungalow
- Buster Keaton at the Selig Studio “Prison”
- Buster Keaton’s Scarecrow Adobe
- Silent Hollywood’s Japanese Enclave
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Silent Locations – Chaplin – Keaton – Lloyd (and more)- Buster Keaton’s Cops and Laurel & Hardy 1928 Year Two
- Buster Keaton’s Three Ages Leap of Faith
- Buster Keaton’s Backlot Adventures in Cops
- Silent Location Encore Performances
- Charlie Chaplin’s One A.M. Mystery SOLVED!!
- How Laurel & Hardy Made “Two Tars”
- Buster Keaton Go West – many NEW discoveries on a new YouTube essay
- Buster Keaton – the Great SMILING Stoneface
- Caught On Film – Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman
- Mack Swain’s Santa Monica Adventures with Laurel & Hardy, Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd
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Monty Banks ‘Peaceful Alley’ beside Pickford, Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd
Cheerful, dapper, always smiling, winking, performing pratfalls and dangerous stunts tirelessly in dozens of films, silent comedian/director Monty Banks is a revelation. Born Mario Bianchi in Italy in 1897, he started in films in 1916, before Buster Keaton, and made … Continue reading
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Tagged Cops, Day Dreams, From Hand to Mouth, Intolerance, Monty Banks, Peaceful Alley, The Hoodlum, The Kid
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