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UNIVERSIDAD POLITCNICA DE MADRIDESCUELA TCNICA SUPERIOR DE
ARQUITECTURA
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Textos 2012-2013
udd federico soriano
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The Artist depicts the romance between a fading silent film star
and a rising
talkie ingnue, set in Hollywood during 1927 to 1932.
Writer-director Michel
Hazanavicius, and his mostly French cast and crew, traveled to
California to film
at true Hollywood locations in order to re-create the magic of
the past.
The Artist Locations Part 2, Roger Rabbit, and BusterKeatons
Debut One Week
JOHN BENGTSON
disponible
enhttp://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/the-artist-part-2-and-buster-keatons-
debut-one-week/
The Kinograph Studio entryway and other studio scenes portrayed
in The Artist were filmed at the Red Studios, 846 N.
Cahuenga Boulevard. The Lillian Way entrance pictured here was
fixed up to appear in the movie. The red box marks the
same sliding door and shed in both images. The left yellow oval
marks the shadow cast by the modern day rooftop air-conditioning
unit (the right yellow oval), replaced with open sky in the movie
frame. The other entrance to the Red Studios
on Cahuenga was used in Who Framed Roger Rabbit ?, see end of
post below. (c) 2011 Google
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Continuing my prior post about locations appearing in the movie,
I explain here
how The Artist was filmed just steps away from Buster Keatons
small studio, and
where he filmed his debut solo short film One Week (1920).
The Kinograph Studio entryway and other studio scenes portrayed
in The Artist
were filmed at the Red Studios, 846 N. Cahuenga Boulevard, two
blocks due
south from the former Buster Keaton Studios, and across the
street, to the south,
from the former Metro Studios.
From between 1920 to 1928, Buster created 19 short films, and
ten feature
comedies, from his studio located in Hollywood at Eleanor and
Lillian Way.
Before being folded into MGM, the former Metro Studios were
located adjacent to
Busters lot. For many years the block on which the Red Studios
now stands was
used as a backlot for the Metro Studios to build exterior sets.
It was here that
Buster Keaton constructed his disastrous build-it-yourself
two-story home for his
debut independent short film One Week (1920).
Buster Keatons home in One Week stood on the block bounded by
Lillian Way, Waring, Cahuenga, and Willoughby, now
occupied by the Red Studios appearing in The Artist.
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The 846 Cahuenga entrance to the Red Studios portrayed the
Maroon Cartoon Studios in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
(C) Google Inc.
The more prominent Cahuenga entrance to the Red Studios was
employed
to portray another vintage Hollywood studio, Maroon Cartoons,
for the 1988
animated-live action classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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This circa 1925 aerial view of the Metro backlot above shows the
block on which
the Red Studios would be later built. The aerial view looks to
the SE, while the
matching modern view looks east. The same bungalow, at 817 N.
Cahuenga
Boulevard, across the street from the Red Studios, appears in
both images the
only original structure to survive. This same bungalow appears
during scenesfrom Buster Keatons One Week, described further
below.
The block bounded by Lillian Way, Waring, Cahuenga, and
Willoughby, was a backlot for the former Metro Studios, and
is today the site for the Red Studios used to film The Artist.
Notice the large castle set in the far corner of Lillian Way
and
Waring. The bungalow at 817 Cahuenga (the upper yellow oval)
partially blocked by the apartment in the circa 1925 im-age above,
still stands on Cahuenga today (red oval directly above), the only
structure to appear in both images. Vintage
image Bruce Torrence Hollywood Historical Collection. Aerial
image (c) 2011 Microsoft Corporation, Pictometry Birds Eye
(c) 2010 Pictometry International Corp.
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Several scenes from The Artist that take place on the fictional
Kinograph Studio
grounds, including this shot above, were filmed at the Red
Studios.
Above, Buster builds his do-it-yourself home during a scene from
One Week,
filmed at the future site of the Red Studios . A portion of a
Metro Studio filming
stage appears in the background. Below, the surviving bungalow
at 817 N.
Cahuenga, discussed above, appears in two scenes from One Week.
Busters
finished house is all contorted because his rival had secretly
re-numbered the
boxes to Busters do-it-yourself kit. In the movie frame to the
lower right, a piano-
mover delivers Busters piano, walking north up Cahuenga past the
817 address.
You can see the bungalow on Google Street View at the end of
this post.
Buster building his home in One Week on the Metro backlot. The
red oval in each image marks the same Metro Studio
filming stage rooftop ventilation shed. The red box, now in the
middle of the Red Studios lot where The Artist was filmed,
is the approximate spot where Busters One Week house set was
constructed. The yellow arrow shows the point of view
of the movie frame to the left.
Jean Dujardin, as George Valentin, strolling south within the
Red Studios, beside a studio covered porch. The red box
marks the Lillian Way entrance to the studio (appearing as the
Kinograph Studio during the film) as described at the top
of this post.
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The bungalow at 817 N. Cahuenga, across the street from the Red
Studios, appears in these two scenes from Buster
Keatons 1920 debut short film One Week. The yellow box marks the
same distinctive horizontal trim piece in each image.
Circa 1921 view, looking south at the small Keaton Studio in the
foreground (oval), and the future site of the Red Studios(box) at
back, with the two blocks of the Metro Studios standing in between.
The small oval at back marks the same bun-
galow at 817 N. Cahuenga. Bruce Torrence Hollywood Historical
Collection
