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Made in the 1930s, we see the sad remains of several silent movie studios.
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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• film
• history
• hollywood
• silent
• movies
• Mabel
• Normand
• Rudolph
• Valentino
• movie
• studios

[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.

[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....

[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.