![]() ![]() Talking Buster Keaton – The Blacksmith 11:30.Talking Buster Keaton – Neighbors 24:30.Edge of Doom Copyright 1950 The Samuel Goldwyn Company. The Office copyright (c) 2011 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Images and movie frame images reproduced courtesy of The Harold Lloyd Trust and Harold Lloyd Entertainment Inc. Lloyd’s films are all trademarks and/or service marks of Harold Lloyd Entertainment Inc. You can read about how Lloyd filmed Speedy all over Manhattan and Brooklyn, at Coney Island, and in Los Angeles, in my Harold Lloyd location book Silent Visions. The pin to the upper right shows the site of the lost Kensington Apartments, now a parking lot. The yellow arrow points SW down Witmer towards the Mayfair Hotel on 7th Street (yellow boxes), and the red ovals mark the corner stop sign where Dwight, Erin, and Holly stood (far above). The aerial views above look to the north. (c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation, Pictometry Bird’s Eye (c) 2010 Pictometry International Corp. Since other scenes from this sequence were filmed in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I checked nearby locales there as well to see if I could find this setting in New York, but it was another dead end.Ĭalifornia Historical Society, Title Insurance and Trust Photo Collection, Department of Special Collections, University of Southern California. So I first checked the few trolley-line “T” intersections to be found along Bunker Hill, and in the downtown LA Historic Core, but nothing matched up. Although Speedy was filmed primarily on location in Manhattan, I also knew many taxi sequences were filmed on Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles. The unusual setting intrigued me, as it featured a downhill slope pointing towards a “T” intersection, capped by an uncommonly tall building, on which a trolley ran along the cross street. As Harold speaks with the truck driver, the taxi breaks loose and rolls down hill running over a traffic cop. Harold Lloyd used the slope of Witmer Street to good advantage during an early scene in Speedy, where Harold recovers his idle taxi cab that had accidentally been towed away by a moving van. The Burton Arms Apartments, with the vertical white corner detail, still stands at 680 Witmer. ![]() The Mayfair Hotel stands at the end in both shots. The prominent entrance to the Kensington Apartments, 668 Witmer Street, now lost, appears in Edge of Doom – left, and in Speedy – right. ![]()
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