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Stan and Ollie and a Drive Through Bunker Hill by
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The footage not only provides a wonderful glimpse of post-WWII Bunker
Hill, now lost to civic redevelopment, but illuminates Los Angeles
during the silent film era as well.
As I explain in my book
Silent Visions, Harold Lloyd filmed scenes for
seven different movies at the intersection of 3rd and Grand, on Bunker
Hill, more scenes than at any other location in Los Angeles. It was a
popular place for Laurel and Hardy, and other Hal Roach Studio stars to
film as well. The Prelinger film drives twice by Lloyd’s intersection of
3rd and Grand, providing razor sharp images of where Lloyd and other
silent stars filmed.
You can see where several Roach silent comedies were filmed along the Prelinger film route on my blog below.
http://silentlocations.wordpress.com...h-bunker-hill/