How Buster Keaton made Steamboat Bill, Jr. - score by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

#BusterKeaton left his riverbank footsteps in Sacramento along a park you can visit today.
Score "Cottonfield Capers" by Wm. Christopher O’Hare - performed by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra www.mont-alto.com
Led by Rodney Sauer, The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra accompanied Steamboat Bill, Jr, on May 7, 2022 at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. silentfilm.org...
Here's a link to the fantastic aerial photo appearing in the thumbnail - catalog.archiv...
Read more details in my blog post Buster Keaton’s riverbank footsteps - silentlocation...

[@curtandoscar]

Absolutely wonderful video with a gorgeous score! Loved every second of this! Thank you for the painstaking work.

[@Geaux_tigers_97]

Great stuff, John!

[@yelloworangered]

Your channel is like a dream come true! Thank you for sharing silent film history. The location and studio history is wonderful to see.

[@icyfire6879]

I love these amazing videos!! So sad that hardly anything remains tho..at least we have photos, thank you for creating such painstakingly detailed videos!!

[@Trefology]

Brilliant work.

[@JohnSmith-if4uy]

Amazing After watching the actual moving you would of sworn it was filmed in the south.

[@jerickson9402]

I enjoyed that, thank you

[@mikul_Robins]

Facinating insights, as usual

[@jonfreedman9069]

Love the videos. Great stuff!

[@mharrison1956]

fantastic! great job - love buster!

[@oldmaine4314]

I love Old Hollywood films, but I’m a sucker for behind the scenes and location research. Absolutely superb!

[@buh2001j]

Every video is such a pleasure to watch. Perfect companion piece to films, thanks again for using your time and talent to make such lovely videos and share them publicly.

[@danapplebee4408]

Excellent video. I know the area pretty well and had no idea that huge set was once there.

[@chrisbungostudios]

Very well done John. And amazing that the water tower at the river is still there!

[@jimdallape8054]

I love the video format, John. It adds so much more clarity to the locations and highlights your fantastic detective skills. As always, very well done.

[@lesleythompson6801]

This was great! I have a friend who lives near there and next time I visit we'll have to check it out! It seems to me there should be a marker in that park for the spot where the famous falling facade was shot. I'm sure so many people have seen it, or someone's homage.

[@SilentLocationsbyJohnBengtson]

A marker is a great idea. If you check my other video, Hollywood Heritage has now installed a plaque at the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley in Hollywood

[@lesleythompson6801]

@@SilentLocationsbyJohnBengtson I'd heard that was going to happen--great! I was in LA for the installation of the correct and improved street corner marker for the studio. I went on your walking tour and got your book Silent Echoes, and started watching your videos. You got me hooked!

[@SilentLocationsbyJohnBengtson]

@@lesleythompson6801 Wow, thank you so much for sharing this Lesley, I really appreciate it

[@aviduser1961]

Surprisingly, so many of Keaton's classics were not filmed in Hollywood. Did the film company really need to travel so far away, so often?

[@SilentLocationsbyJohnBengtson]

Buster filmed on location in Kern County, San Francisco, Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Arizona, Oregon, and New York, far more so than any other silent comedian. He'd travel anywhere to get just the right spot, but being practical, he also filmed dozens of mundane shots across the street from his studio. I think he loved the adventure of remote filming.

[@aviduser1961]

@@SilentLocationsbyJohnBengtson I can't get over the expense and the energy it took. And this was 100 years ago!

[@painin2teeth]

My favorite channel