![]() ![]() ![]() You can read all about how Chaplin filmed City Lights in my book Silent Traces. So both in life, and in silent movie location identification (you know, the important things) -), it always pays not to assume too much and to keep an open mind – you never know what you might find. Movies frequently match scenes filmed miles apart, or traveling in opposite directions. ![]() There is no film-makers’ oath requiring cinematic landscapes filmed on location to comport with reality. It’s easy to get tripped up identifying spots assuming east is always east and west is always west. In turn, this meant that the church stood on the SE corner of a “T” intersection, which proved to be the unique key to solving the mystery. For example, I was able to solve the location of the church from Buster Keaton’s 1925 feature Seven Chances (left) only by first correctly assuming the camera view looked north. But identifying non-obvious movie locations requires making such basic assumptions regarding the position of the camera. As mentioned, I would have found the above street sweeper work station scenes from City Lights much sooner if I had not mistakenly assumed the shots were filmed looking north. ![]()
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