John Bengtson visits an alley off Cahuenga Boulevard where three silent-movie masterpieces were filmed. The Palmer Building is in the background.
And many more films, he points out — among them “Tillie’s Punctured Romance” — include city scenes filmed just around the corner on the 1600 block of Cahuenga Boulevard, which should also be pointed out to visitors.Alas, just as we’ve lost a lot of our city’s built history, only a small fraction of the hundreds of silent films made survive. The nitrate film that was used at the time was highly flammable, and many films were destroyed in fires.
“They’re like spices that you don’t normally taste or colors you don’t normally see,” he told me. “The imagery and the story construction and the jokes — you can’t beat them.”I have to confess that Bengtson first showed me the alley last year, just before the pandemic hit. After we were shut in, the timing seemed off to tell you about it.
I love Chaplin.
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