The acrobatic antics of the Keystone Kops were filmed here in Edendale. Normand, Arbuckle and Keaton boozed between takes, while bathing beauties auditioned on Mack Sennet’s infamous casting couch.
Harold Lloyd famously hung off a clock in Safety Last, filmed atop 908 S. Broadway in 1923. Though traffic whizzes below, Lloyd was quite safe-a platform was constructed out of frame.
Chaplin’s iconic tramp character 1st raced into history in Kid Auto races at Venice in 1914. A Mutual Film Picture, it was shot at Main and Westminster.
Babylon was revisited in 1915 by DW Griffith and 4000 extras when a massive Mesopotamian temple set was built for the epic Intolerance. An early tourist trap till it was demolished in ‘23.
Sherlock Jr. is a delightful 1924 fantasy about a projectionist (Buster Keaton) who dreams of being a cop. The fake cop hilariously encounters a real cop in a scene filmed on Larchmont Blvd.
The earliest Disney cartoons were about the adventures of a little girl named Alice. They were the 1st to mix live action with animation and were shot and drawn in Disney’s East Hollywood studio.
This romantic Spanish mission was built in 1797. It was perfectly suited as a film location numerous for romantic characters including Valentino’s lone rider in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
