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This month we're looking at four movies filmed in the Los Angeles area, from the years 1920 through 1936.
The cult classic Reefer Madness from 1936, the Our Gang / The Little Rascals comedy short The Pooch from 1932, Harold Lloyd's 1920 comedy Get Out and Get Under and the 1921 Charlie Chaplin film The Idle Class.
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This Month's Featured Filming Location Photos
On location with Fred Dryer's hit 1980s TV series Hunter, exploring filming locations in Culver City and Los Angeles this month. And the Laurel and Hardy movie Liberty, filmed just a block away 57 years earlier.
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Special Event! Culver City Historical Society Watch Party!
Click the image above to view my "watch party" I held at the Culver City Historical Society in April, 2025.
I showed my then and now filming locations video documentary of the Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie "Fish Hooky" and one of those unintentionally funny 1960s "educational" films that we all had to endure back in elementary school.
The evening ended with some brief excerpts from my filming location video documentaries from The Twilight Zone, Charlie's Angels, CHiPs, Hunter and Starsky and Hutch.
This Month's Filming Locations Quick Preview Videos
Reefer Madness (1936)
Our Gang / The Little Rascals - The Pooch (1932)
Our Gang / The Little Rascals - The Pooch (1932)
Reefer Madness was filmed almost entirely at the historic (Mary) Pickford-(Douglas) Fairbanks Studios, which later became United Artists, then Samuel Goldwyn Studios and these days is simply named The Lot.
Made on a very low budget, the one scene shot on location was filmed on Santa Monica Blvd right outside of the studio!
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Our Gang / The Little Rascals - The Pooch (1932)
Our Gang / The Little Rascals - The Pooch (1932)
Our Gang / The Little Rascals - The Pooch (1932)
The mean dog catcher has Stymie's dog Petey and Stymie needs to come up with $5 by the end of the day to pay for his release. Stymie's prayers are answered as a $5 bill floats down from the sky and lands in front of him.
The money, though, had blown out of a lady's hand as she was standing in front of a store just a short distance away. She summons an officer who then chases Stymie around the neighborhood trying to retrieve the $5 bill. Stymie evades the officer and the movie ends with Stymie and Petey reunited.
In this Quick Preview excerpt from the complete filming locations then and now documentary video for this Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie, we see a few of the locations used in the beginning of the chase scene. This particular sequence was filmed in the Palms neighborhood on the west side of Los Angeles. Still very undeveloped in 1932, the area today has been completely built up.
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Harold Lloyd - Get Out and Get Under (1920)
Harold is late for his perfomance in a play and the bulk of this movie takes us on his journey through the Los Angeles area of 1920 as he struggles to make his way to the theatre.
The Hal Roach Studios produced this Harold Lloyd comedy short over 100 years ago and it provides us with great views of the Palms neighborhood on the west side of Los Angeles, plus a rare view of what is today's Chinatown district.
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Charlie Chaplin - The Idle Class (1921)
Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character visits an upscale golf resort.
There's a lot of filming on location in this one. The opening scene of the Tramp arriving on the train was filmed in Pasadena, California. The golfing scenes were shot next to the Los Angeles river a few miles north of downtown Los Angeles and the park scenes were filmed at what is today's Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills.
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This Month's Featured Filming Location Then And Now Photos
Hunter - Scrap Metal (1986)
The episode Scrap Metal from the TV series Hunter in 1986 filmed on location at several locations in Culver City, California. Culver City was a popular filming location for the series. Many episodes featured an establishing shot of the exterior of the old City Hall building to indicate to viewers that this was where their police headquarters was located.
This scene, early in the episode, was filmed in front of 8564 Washington Blvd (built in 1926) about a mile from the downtown core. All the buildings seen in this scene from the episode are still standing with just a few minor alterations.
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Hunter - Scrap Metal (1986)
Hunter's partner McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) goes undercover on the rough streets of Hollywood. This scene was filmed at the corner of Hollywood Blvd and Highland Avenue.
The Hollywood First National Bank building stands prominently in the background. Built in 1928, this building has appeared in many films over the years. You can see it here in the opening scene of the 1945 short film Are Animals Actors?
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Hunter - Scrap Metal (1986)
The Culver Hotel at 9400 Culver Blvd in Culver City, California, has appeared in dozens (and dozens) of movies and TV episodes since it was built in 1923/24. In fact, several films on this site show the hotel under construction!
The hotel is perhaps most famous as the place where the actors portraying The Munchkins in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz stayed during filming. This chapter of the hotel's history is explored in the 1981 movie Under The Rainbow.
At the time this episode of Hunter was filmed, the hotel's glory days had long passed and the building had been converted to small, cheap apartments with no doubt some dubious tenants! Thanks to a multi-million dollar restoration completed in 2014, the hotel is in great shape and a very popular place. If you're in the area, make it a point to stop in for cocktails and a meal.
More on the history of The Culver Hotel here.
This episode of Hunter gives us a rare look INSIDE the entrance lobby to the building.
Hunter - Scrap Metal (1986)
Right across Main Street from The Culver Hotel sat The Adams Hotel, a building which also has appeared in numerous movies and TV episodes, from early Our Gang / The Little Rascals films and Laurel and Hardy movies, to episodes of Charlie's Angels and Starsky & Hutch.
The entire block where the Adams Hotel used to stand had been totally cleared by the mid 1990s and sat as a surface parking lot for nearly two decades until the massive Culver Steps development was built.
Today, the section of Main Street seen in the photo from the episode above no longer exists as it's been converted into a pedestrian mall, with a huge multi-level parking garage underneath it.
The building seen in the background is the administration building of The Culver Studios. Dating back to 1918, this movie studio was built before Culver City even existed! More on the history of The Culver Studios here.
Laurel and Hardy - Liberty (1929)
Located at the site of the previously mentioned Adams Hotel, Laurel and Hardy filmed scenes from their movie Liberty in 1929 here on location. This is the 9300 block of Culver Blvd.
In the first photo (from the movie) that's the Adams Hotel on the right. The second photo was taken in 2016 and shows the entire 9300 block having been demolished with the surface parking lot now in its place, while the third photo shows the Culver Steps development that now occupies the site.
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Special Event! Culver City Historical Society Watch Party!
On April 22, 2025 I paid a visit to Culver City, California, the Heart Of Screenland, where I was honored to present a watch party showing a few of my filming location then and now videos and photos from the 1930s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s covering Culver City, Venice and the nearby neighborhood of Palms to a full house at the Culver City Historical Society.
We started out by watching my complete filming locations documentary of the 1933 movie "Fish Hooky" by The Little Rascals. I chose this Little Rascals movie because we get to see some amazing views of the Venice Amusement pier in addition to the (then) beautiful Ballona Creek which today is a massive concrete flood control channel.
Next up on the program was one of those "educational" films that, if you were a kid growing up in the USA in the 1950s - 1970s, you no doubt were forced to watch at school. This film, "The Strange Ones," has as its theme "Don't talk to strangers." Made on a very low budget, "The Strange Ones" was filmed entirely on the streets of Culver City and in nearby Venice. As an added bonus, the video below includes a Zoom interview I conducted with the star of the movie, "Karen." So, even if you were there that night, you'll want to watch this video for the interview "bonus" feature!
Third on the "watch list" were some excerpts from my filming location then and now videos from several TV series filmed in the neighborhoods of Culver City from the 1960s - 1980s, including The Twilight Zone, Charlie's Angels, CHiPs, Starsky and Hutch and Hunter.
To close out the evening, I took questions from the audience and hung around afterwards to chat.
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The Three Stooges didn't do as much on location filming as Laurel and Hardy or The Little Rascals, but every so often - especially in the 1930s - they would venture outside the studio to film.
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From those days in the classroom when you were forced to watch "safety" movies...
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Charley Chase
Funny Educational Films
Funny Educational Films
Not very well known these days, but Charley Chase was a top-notch comic actor, writer and director back in the 1920s and 1930s. He even was involved in putting together The Little Rascals way back in 1922!
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