LACHS Webinar from April 20, 2021
A presentation with film historian and author John Bengtson. For over 20 years, John has researched the visual history of early Hollywood and other vintage locations as depicted in classic movies featuring silent film comedians Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. He combines image clips from the movies with archival photographs, historic maps and scores of then-and-now comparison to create a stunning work of cinematic archeology.
John’s work has resulted in several books as well as a blog that is continuously updated with new findings.
In this webinar, John focuses on silent movie locations in Downtown Los Angeles and Hollywood.
Visit John’s blog website - Silent Locations: https://silentlocations.com/
The Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley YouTube video: https://youtu.be/k_PCBhOgvK4
About John Bengtson
John Bengtson is a business lawyer, film historian, and lecturer, whose books Silent Echoes, Silent Traces, and Silent Visions explore the early Hollywood history hidden in the background of the films of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Harold Lloyd.
John’s work has been hailed by The New York Times as a “Proustian collage of time and memory, biography and history, urban growth and artistic expression.” Each book features a foreword by Academy Award winning film historian Kevin Brownlow.
Bengtson has lectured at over fifty events hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Turner Classic Movie Channel Film Festival, Cineteca di Bologna, Film Forum and The Museum of the Moving Image in New York, USC, the American Cinematheque and Cinecon Classic Film Festival at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and has provided commentary and bonus programs for over a dozen Keaton, Chaplin, and Lloyd DVD/Blu-ray releases. John serves on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
