Cops A to Z

10:53 – 11:54   Goldwyn, Metro East, and Metro West

The policeman parade as viewed through the Goldwyn Studio backlot arch. Culver City

Dave Barnes explains this giant set built on the Goldwyn (later M-G-M) Studio in Culver City appeared in the 1919 drama The World And Its Woman. See matching views from the drama at left and from Cops at right. https://silentlocations.com/2025/04/15/buster-keatons-backlot-adventures-in-cops/

10:57

Virginia joins the chief of police, and her father the mayor, in the parade viewing stands on the east side of the Metro backlot street set, just across the street from Buster’s studio. KC.19.2 Spring 2011 page 7. Hollywood

11:08

Wider view of the east side parade viewing stand. Hollywood

11:12   Buster and Onyx join the parade at Goldwyn viewed through the backlot arch. Culver City

11:30   Virginia reacts to seeing Buster. Hollywood

11:37   Panning side view of Buster and Onyx in the parade at the Goldwyn backlot. Culver City

11:42   Virginia and the viewing stand react to seeing Buster. Hollywood

11:46   Buster in closeup acknowledges the crowd and searches for a cigarette.

11:54   Buster stops the wagon in the parade. Wide view of the west side Metro Five Arches to the left, and the Goat Gland entrance, absent the sign, to the right. Notice the shadows of the fire escape along the Goat Gland entrance, matching 09:31. Hollywood

12:01   An anarchist with a bomb enters from the right atop 6667 Hollywood Blvd, current site of the Musso & Frank Grill – the original grill site at 6669 stands next door out of view. Down the street reveals the Egyptian Theater under construction and the back of the Hollywood Fireproof Storage Building on Highland, now the Max Factor Building. KC.20.3 Summer 2011 page 7. Hollywood https://silentlocations.com/2012/12/16/keatons-short-fuse-cops-musso-frank-and-enduring-hollywood-history/

12:03   Buster in closeup searches for a match. 12:08   The anarchist lights and tosses the bomb. Hollywood   12:11   Buster in closeup sees the bomb and uses it as a handy match. 12:18   Virginia reacts in terror at Buster’s bomb. Hollywood

12:23

Buster casually tosses the bomb aside as if it was a spent match. Bomb explodes, dazed police stumble around. All filmed beside the west side Five Arch set. Metro

12:40   Police chase after Buster from the Goldwyn backlot. Culver City

12:44   At left, Buster rides past the east side Metro backlot viewing stand, knocking over a fire hydrant. Metro 12:50  Center, Buster crashes wagon in front of Five Arch set on the west side of the backlot. The camera angle hides the fact no one is sitting in the front of the wagon. Metro 12:58  At right, the viewing stand crowd on the east side of the Metro backlot shelter from broken fire hydrant. Metro 13:02  Not shown, cops search for Buster at wagon crash site, Five Arch set. Metro

13:04Viewing stand drenched by water, at back Buster emerges hiding behind an umbrella. Metro

13:17   Cops search for Buster at wagon crash site, Five Arch set. Metro

13:18   Cops chase Buster up the viewing stand, he jumps to the back building. Loaded with police, the bleacher collapses and Buster escapes into the building. See the right spot on the aerial photo two images below. Metro

13:30   Mayor and Police Chief argue on east side of Metro street backlot (middle set) just north of the viewing stand. “Get some cops to protect our policemen!”

Aerial view of the east side of the Metro street backlot set on Vine and Romaine, just across the street from Buster’s studio. Buster above the viewing stand (see 13:18) is the right dot, to the south. The Mayor and Police Chief (see 13:30) argue just north of the viewing stand, middle dot. A later scene of the chief beside an apartment (see 16:57) is the left dot. KC.19.2 Spring 2011 page 7. Hollywood