A 4-minute treasure hunt through 1927 — Hollywood's ghost streets revealed.
In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, pinpoints the locations used in the filming of The General and offers glimpses of how they look today.
Direction
Bengtson's obsessive location matching is genuinely impressive.
Editing
Then/now split-screens hit harder than they should.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bengtson spent years cross-referencing 1927 photos with modern satellite imagery to find these spots.
The General's locations were largely forgotten until Bengtson's research; this short essentially resurrected them from archival oblivion.
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