Buster Keaton's 1924 Hollywood is hiding in plain sight — here's the map.
This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations where Keaton's 1924 comedy feature Sherlock Jr. was filmed in Hollywood and Orange County.
Direction
Bengtson's obsessive detective work matching frames to streets.
Cinematography
Then/now location photography that makes time collapse.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bengtson spent years matching Keaton's backgrounds to San Fernando Valley and downtown LA streets using vintage maps and insurance atlases.
The essay reveals how much 1920s Hollywood was already being demolished by the 1960s — Keaton's own studio razed in 1937.
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