From Mark Evanier's blog, NEWS FROM ME:
"I live a few miles from a portion of Los Angeles known as Culver City. Although it's presently going through a heavy influx of new businesses and structural upgrades, there are still a lot of old buildings in Culver City, which makes it a delight for us Laurel and Hardy buffs. The Hal Roach Studio was located there and though it's long gone, you can still spot a lot of the street locations where Stan and Ollie filmed. Several are strikingly identifiable from their old films even 70-80 years later.
Piet Schreuders is a designer and pop culture historian. Not long ago, he did extensive research of the area, as you'll see in this clip. You'll also see a little of what he did with it, which was to create a computer model of the main streets of Culver City, regressed to the era when Laurel and Hardy filmed there. This runs a little less than five minutes and some of it is in Dutch but you'll get the idea. Thanks to Don Brockway for sharing this with us."
Hi Pat,
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to correct that the clown in the Levetation Gag was Marcos Droguett and "NOT" his Grandson Marcos Manuel Barragan.
Thank's!
This clip is awesome!
ReplyDeleteI wish things were done like this more often (like how about a 3d model of 1930's or 40's Ringling)
On a Side Note-
right outside of Augusta Ga. is a little town called Harlem and they have a Laurel and Hardy Museum. The whole town has murals and such of the guys. There are no big signs or billboards that tell you about it. Just a little a small hand painted board under the exit ramp.
I stopped there this past year while doing advance for the Gold Unit and was treated like a king. They gave me a tour and ran a movie for just for me!. It was fun!
Larry
(Realizing I sound like a 12 year old by using the word awesome, so I will blame it on the cold medicine)
it's fun to go to silverlake area of L.A. to see to stairs from the Laurel & Hardy's "Music Box"
ReplyDeleteMy dad told me that the clock that Harold Lloyd hangs from in "Safety Last" was also in Culver City. I wonder if anyone can confirm that. Also, the Kino Video Buster Keaton collection has a similar feature on the extra's disk. It has a map of LA that you can click on that shows scenes from his films shot at that location.
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