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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.

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2009-11-10
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4mins
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Documentary
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Kino Lorber

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John Bengtson

Writer

Bret Wood

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filmmaking buster keaton cinema history

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