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[njgarvin]

Thanks So much for posting this bittersweet video--when I saw Mabel Normand's dressing room-Valentino's door I really filled up :(-- I recently finished Gloria Swanson's autobio -she says it was very much like a college town in the 20's -surely it was competative but she speaks of new comers often being embraced -helped along etc...of course in 1920 EVEYONE WAS a newcomer right? great read. Again Thank you for this little gem.

[HargroveFilms1]

Very sad, but good this film was made before everything was completely gone forever.

[HargroveFilms1]

Very sad, but good this film was made before everything was completely gone forever.

[MrHondalady]

It was a treat and also very sad to see how they did not have the foresight to keep these buildings in repair and have them as a museum perhaps as a glimpse of what the old Hollywood used to be like...why don't people think about the future?...so sad.

[MissyH316]

Thank you for posting this hearbreaking but nonetheless priceless video; God bless the people who filmed some remants of Old Hollywood before they were swept away by the merciless force called "progress".

[3511able]

I am SO glad you uploaded this interesting video. I have saved it so I can watch it several times. Thank you!

[HISTORYBUFFPA]

I have a vid on my channel of the location of silent film era Balboa Studios in Long Beach, CA. It is now home of the Latin American Museum of Art. I also just found out where Fatty Arbuckle and Theda Bara lived in Long Beach.

[mewhor]

What's wierd is they were talking about a period 10 or 15 years earlier as thought it were 100 years before.

[neilb95121]

To go back in time and actually be a part of living history. Feel, smell, touch, see, and live the past with all it's day to day activities. To sit next Mable Norman, Valentino, Charles Chaplin, at the cafe or cafes made famous by these stars of the past. All we have is videos like this to entice us but no actual living remnents other than cemetaries.

[TheKimdunn]

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this.

[TheKimdunn]

At least theChaplin Studio on La Brea is still standing,even though it's now the Henson Studio.Love the statue of Kermit as The Tramp.Brilliant.

[kimpunkrock]

thanks for posting!

[zeekwolfe]

This is an interesting look at nostalgia 1930's style. The film was made in about 1932. If we could fast-forward 1932 to 2010, then the good old days happened as recently as the late 1980's, 20 to 30 years ago. But this film portrays the silent movie era as something from ancient history.  Actually, the workers who put these buildings up were still working on new projects, not mouldering in the grave.

[Hotbluesbabe]

I am finding the audio is quite broken up and very quiet. I love the history tho and appreciate this documentary on old Hollywood. Thank you.

[kangadillo]

It's been said that nothing is permanent except change. Thank God for film, so we can at least see something of what has been.

Thank you for posting a very moving video.

[Pintac87]

Great video! Nice seeing the Falcon Lair in its heyday. Practically nothing remains of it today. Amazing how you can stay in a hotel in Europe where the building is 400 years old and yet, Hollywood has demolished most of its landmarks that were barely 100 years old.

[Shabannie]

Thank you for posting this!

[80stimeagain]

Yes, i've seen this before. Interesting video. Thanks for share Lucia. ;)

[WilliamJAConrad]

Great video. (In a sad way). Time keeps a rollin' and time destroys all. (With some help from us of course). I like to think 'Better days ahead', but am a realist and know when it's gone... it's gone.

[TheLadyMalfoy]

PT. 2 My favorite parts of this film are when we see the old Metro studios where Rudolph Valentino filmed many of his classics (he has every reason to feel proud of his work!) and the exterior of Rudy's former dressing room (if only walls could talk!). I wish we could have seen the interior, too! Love the outside view of Falcon's Lair (Rudy's beloved home) as it looked while he lived there, along with the window of his beloved study.

[TheLadyMalfoy]

THANK YOU for this wonderful film that preserves Hollywood's history. So much has been lost to us because of Hollywood's failure to preserve much of its history in the name of progress. Think how much we could have learned from what has been lost to us. So sad to see the reels of film abandoned to decay. What treasures did they hold?

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

I love the history of Hollywood.

This film is an important link to the past and what became of it.

What a shame that so many great landmarks fell into decay and ruin, but they were not thought of as the historical places back then that they would be today.

In the 1930's, Hollywood was changing and all eyes were on the new.

There was also a depression and the money was not there to keep everything up.

I wish the past could come alive.

It was a better world.

George Vreeland Hill

[sheilarsnyder1412]

I think it is interesting how he mentions Mabel and Charlie Chaplin and Gloria Swanson making movies at the studio but does not mention Fatty Arbuckle. Obviously he was still banned from movies when this was made!

[bobbsyjo72]

Yes, i've just been reading the posts of the others people who have seen this beautiful but sad video. I also am a huge lover of Hollywoods Golden Age and ues, it is just so very very sad to see that its all gone. I went to Hollywwod in 1999 especially to visit all I could of Hollywoods past and I left L.A. sad. There was and is nothing left, all torn out, sold off. "best preservation is neglect" someone above wrote... yes, can u imagine the amount of tourism they could be enjoying now....

[maudietriplett]

Oh my, how I wish that Hollywood had saved more. Thanks for the glimpse into such important past locations. I really love it!

[gablefan01]

Was the studio with Mabel Normand's private back the old Sennett studio?

[SirVixsAtomic]

Thank you for posting this!

It kills me inside on how much of LA and Hollywood's history is still today demolished for something "better".

As they say the best preservation is neglect.

[astralagosto]

Hi vaultis,

Thank you for putting this documentary on YouTube. I love silent films and have wondered about the fate of some the silent film studios.

It's a tragedy that Mabel Normand's dressing room and bath were demolished for "progress".

Hollywood never preserves it's history. When it was preserved in the old days, it was by accident. Thank God for Kevin Brownlow for preserving silent film, otherwise, we would be stuck with the bad movies of today.

[ResurrectingMisery]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing the video.

[1Robinesse]

Great! Thanks for posting this video.