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- How Harold Lloyd Filmed Safety Last!
- Groucho, Buster, and Noir - at the Pasadena Jewett Estate
- Buster Keaton Tours
- Keaton’s “What No Beer?” Barrel Avalanche
- About
- Charlie Chaplin's Echo Park Home - 100 Years Later
- How Laurel & Hardy Filmed Perfect Day - New Discoveries
- Amazing New Keaton Discoveries – My Wife’s Relations
- How Laurel and Hardy Filmed Another Fine Mess
- A Tale of Two Train Wrecks (and One Airport) - by Buster Keaton
- Follow Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more) on WordPress.com
Author Interviews – Reviews
- Academy Interview July 2011
- AMPAS Lecture on The General
- City Brights SF Gate Review
- Publishers Weekly Review
- KPCC Interview
- Interview on Movie Mom
- Philadelphina Inquirer
- Los Angeles Times interview
- Los Angeles Magazine Review
- MOMI article on New York and Speedy
- New York Times (see page 5)
- Author’s Modern Times Program
- Wall Street Journal
- Associated Press
- Examiner – Best 2011 Silent Film Books
- The Commentary Track
- Leonard Maltin Movie Crazy
- LA Observed
- Film Forum New York
- New York Times – Keaton Review
- 2013 Club TCM in Hollywood
- LA Times 2013
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Recent Posts
- Laurel & Hardy’s Liberty Rooftop
- Before the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley
- Chaplin falls for The Kid – every scene now identified
- Keaton’s Bungalow Outside MGM
- Oliver Hardy at the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley
- Buster Keaton and W.C. Fields in Astoria
- Buster Keaton’s Kennel on the MGM lot
- Buster Keaton’s Blue Blazes in Astoria
- It’s The Old Army Game – W.C. Fields in New York with Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd
- It’s The Old Army Game – W.C. Fields and Louise Brooks in Ocala Florida – Part Three – Fields Chased Around Town
- W.C. Fields Running Wild in New York
- It’s The Old Army Game – W.C. Fields and Louise Brooks in Ocala Florida – Part Two – Louise Strolls Around Town
- It’s The Old Army Game – W.C. Fields and Louise Brooks in Ocala Florida – Part One
- It’s The Old Army Game – W.C. Fields and Louise Brooks Bring Magazines to Life
- New Buster Keaton Self-Guided Tours
- Ghosts of the Past – the Regent Apartments – costar with Chaplin, Weber, Sennett and Roach
- Keaton’s Battling Butler – A Knockout Finish to the SF Silent Film Festival
- Keaton’s Seven Chances – On The Clock
- The Surviving Sherlock Jr. Bungalow
- Chaplin’s The Great Dictator – Author Presentation at the Alex
- From Roach’s to Roaches – Stan & Ollie Meet Starsky & Hutch
- Restoration Premiere of Soft Shoes – Crossing Paths with Chaplin, Laurel, and Lloyd
- The Surviving Keaton Studio Neighbors
- The Surviving Chaplin “The Circus” Tree
- Charley Chase “Fast Work” Around Hollywood
- The “Never Give A Sucker An Even Break” Car Chase – Part 2
- The “Never Give A Sucker An Even Break” Car Chase – Part 1
- Farewell – a sudden lost Our Gang landmark
- The Red Kimono – A Vast Record of Early Los Angeles
- Another Lois Weber First – Using Locations
- Keaton’s “What No Beer?” Barrel Avalanche
- Arbuckle – Keaton at the Bronx Biograph Studio
- Buster’s Manhattan Apartment – The Cameraman Part III
- Arbuckle – Keaton – the Good Night Nurse Hot Springs
- Chaplin’s San Jose Day Making A Night Out
- Buster Keaton’s Haunted House
- Chaplin – Pavlova – Lois Weber – at the Castle Sans Souci
- Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman leads the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
- Hollywood’s Silent Echoes – 2017 FIAF/FLC Tour
- Keaton’s The Goat – the geography of a gag
- Buster with a Bullitt – Keaton and Steve McQueen’s SF Stunts
- Keaton and Orson Welles – A High Sign Touch of Evil
- Keaton and Hitchcock’s Vertigo Day Dreams
- Keaton’s Cops and Go West – Peeking Over the School Fence
- Chaplin – Inside “The Kid” Maternity Hospital
- Where Roscoe Arbuckle Filmed His Brooklyn Vitaphone Shorts
- Marc Wanamaker and Bruce Torrence – Hollywood’s Photo History Heroes
- Buster Keaton, Seven Chances, and Warren Beatty?
- Buster Keaton, The General, and Animal House?
- How Chaplin Filmed The Champion – on Location in Niles
- The Chaplin – Keaton – Lloyd Hollywood Alley
- Chaplin’s The Tramp – ‘New’ Views of One of Cinema’s Most Iconic Scenes
- Silent Witness – the House that Watched Over Chaplin and Keaton
- The Modern Times – Citizen Kane – Humphrey Bogart Factory Gate
- Cinecon 2016 Silent Echoes Hollywood Walking Tours
- Amazing New Keaton Discoveries – My Wife’s Relations
- Saving the Best for (Safety) Last!
- Reflections on Keaton’s Cops at the SF Silent Film Festival
- Columbo and the Silent Clowns – Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed Bumping Into Broadway
- Buster in Cops Cruising Santa Monica Boulevard
- Chaplin – Keaton Studio Connections – The Fireman and Convict 13
- How Mabel Normand filmed her Safety Last! Moment (Before Harold Lloyd Did)
- Mostly Lost – Keaton Found (Stan Laurel too) at Hollywood and Western
- The Kid – Charlie Chaplin’s Onscreen Fans
- Chaplin on South Central – Making It Work
- How Charlie Chaplin filmed The Kid
- How Roscoe Arbuckle Filmed His Safety Last! Moment (Before Harold Lloyd Did)
- Houdini – The Grim Game – More Hollywood Connections
- Houdini – The Grim Game’s historic LA landmarks
- Houdini – Keaton – The Grim Game – Cops
- Keaton – Langdon – Lloyd on Larchmont – Ebell Club Author Talk
- Ginger, Buster, and Groucho, Lon Chaney and Loretta Young, all at the Jewett Estate
- San Francisco’s Silent Echoes – Presidio Officers’ Club Talk
- New Chaplin Discovery – Cinecon Talk and Guided Tour
- Chaplin, Sinatra, The Pilgrim and Noir
- Groucho, Buster, and Noir – at the Pasadena Jewett Estate
- Charlie Chaplin City Lights Tour – Author Presentation
- Harold Lloyd’s Speedy – Five Fun Facts
- The Three On A Match – ‘G’ Men – Ann Dvorak connection
- The Three Stooges, Birth of a Nation, Forest Lawn Trees
- Cagney and Keaton Crossing Paths in Inglewood
- How Laurel & Hardy Filmed Perfect Day – New Discoveries
- The Artist and its Amazing Ties to Chaplin, Pickford, Keaton and Lloyd
- How Laurel and Hardy Filmed Another Fine Mess
- Mid City Views – How Hal Roach’s Taxi Boys filmed Taxi for Two
- Even More Speedy – New York Locations
- The Big Parade – Historic Views of the Home Front
- How Charlie Chaplin Filmed The Bank
- How Barbara Stanwyck Filmed Night Nurse
- How James Cagney Filmed Lady Killer
- How Charlie Chaplin Filmed The Adventurer
- Cagney and Harlow on The Public Enemy’s Miracle Mile
- How Buster Keaton Filmed The General
- Keaton’s The General on location in Cottage Grove
- Silent Era Hollywood Tour – Cinecon 50 – Author Presentation
- Charlie Chaplin’s Echo Park Home – 100 Years Later
- Chaplin’s First Scene – a Very Busy Place to Film
- Max Linder Shines Again in Seven Years Bad Luck
- Keaton’s Heart in San Francisco – The Navigator
- Follow Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more) on WordPress.com
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Silent Locations – Chaplin – Keaton – Lloyd (and more)- Laurel & Hardy’s Liberty Rooftop
- Before the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley
- Chaplin falls for The Kid – every scene now identified
- Keaton’s Bungalow Outside MGM
- Oliver Hardy at the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley
- Buster Keaton and W.C. Fields in Astoria
- Buster Keaton’s Kennel on the MGM lot
- Buster Keaton’s Blue Blazes in Astoria
- It’s The Old Army Game – W.C. Fields in New York with Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd
- It’s The Old Army Game – W.C. Fields and Louise Brooks in Ocala Florida – Part Three – Fields Chased Around Town
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Tag Archives: Stan Laurel
Laurel & Hardy’s Liberty Rooftop
Shortly after the San Francisco Silent Film Festival presented Laurel & Hardy’s high-rise comedy Liberty (1929), accompanied by Jon Mirsalis, TCM broadcast the 1933 MGM drama Day of Reckoning, starring Richard Dix. The Dix film was full of surprises. For … Continue reading
Restoration Premiere of Soft Shoes – Crossing Paths with Chaplin, Laurel, and Lloyd
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2018 schedule has just been announced! One highlight is the Thursday, May 31 world premiere restoration of Universal’s 1925 Harry Carey action/drama Soft Shoes, in which Carey (right) seeks to rescue a young woman … Continue reading
Mostly Lost – Keaton Found (Stan Laurel too) at Hollywood and Western
This fun discovery from Buster Keaton’s The Goat (1921) was made possible thanks to Mostly Lost, the Library of Congress crowd-sourcing workshop to screen and identify orphan silent and early sound films, held at the Packard Campus in Culpeper Virginia. … Continue reading
Posted in Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, The Goat
Tagged Buster Keaton, Hollywood, Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood Tour, Keaton Locations, Library of Congress, Mostly Lost, Mother's Joy, Silent Comedians, Silent Comedies, Silent Movie Locations, Silent Movies, Stan Laurel, The Goat, then and now, Western Avenue
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How Laurel & Hardy Filmed Perfect Day – New Discoveries
Built in 1925, this charming bungalow at 3120 Vera Avenue near Culver City appearing in the 1929 comedy Perfect Day is one of the most popular and easily recognizable of all Laurel & Hardy film locations. Author Randy Skretvedt reports … Continue reading
How Laurel and Hardy Filmed Another Fine Mess
In 2001 Piet Schreuders wrote to me from his home in Amsterdam postulating (correctly) about the tunnel appearing at the conclusion of Laurel and Hardy’s 1930 comedy short Another Fine Mess. Apart from being an internationally acclaimed graphic designer, and … Continue reading
Posted in Laurel and Hardy, Los Angeles Tunnels
Tagged Another Fine Mess, Fort Moore Hill, Furore, Hal Roach Studios, Hill Street Tunnel, Laurel and Hardy, Laurel and Hardy film locations, Los Angeles Tunnels, movie locations, Piet Schreuders, Stan Laurel, Subway Tunnel, then and now, White Wings
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Chaplin Leads the Gang to the Hollywood Police
As I explain in my book Silent Traces, Charlie Chaplin’s landmark short film Easy Street (1917) contains scenes filmed on extant Olvera Street in downtown Los Angeles (see below), where he would return a few years later to film his … Continue reading
Posted in Buster Keaton, Chaplin Tour, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd, Harry Langdon, Stan Laurel
Tagged Chaplin Locations, Chaplin Tour, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Easy Street, Harold Lloyd, Harry Langdon, High Society, Hollywood, Hollywood Tour, Keaton Locations, Lloyd Hamilton, Silent Comedians, Silent Comedies, Silent Movie Locations, Silent Movies, Stan Laurel, The Kid, The Last Edition, then and now
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Silent Cameos of the lost Southern Pacific Depot
Before the beautiful downtown Los Angeles Union Train Station opened in 1939, built on the site of the original Chinatown, the various railroads serving L.A. each operated from their own stations. Union Station helped to reduce downtown noise and congestion … Continue reading
Posted in Douglas Fairbanks, Girl Shy, Hal Roach Studios, Harold Lloyd, Los Angeles Historic Core, Stan Laurel
Tagged Arcade Depot, Be Reasonable, Douglas Fairbanks, Girl Shy, Harold Lloyd, Just Neighbors, Los Angeles Arcade Depot, Los Angeles Historic Core, Los Angeles Southern Pacific Depot, Los Angeles Train Stations, Los Angeles Union Station, Mother's Joy, Santa Fe Depot, Silent Comedians, Silent Comedies, Silent Movie Locations, Silent Movies, Southern Pacific Central Depot, Stan Laurel, then and now, When the Clouds Roll By
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