This Month's Filming Locations Quick Preview Videos
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This month we're featuring the controversial (for 1986) music video "Open Your Heart" from Madonna which used a neighborhood just north of Downtown Los Angeles as a filming location. There's also a 1931 Little Rascals movie that's one of the best in the series, "Fly My Kite" and the stunning changes to that movie's filming locations. The Three Stooges movie "False Alarms" filming locations video shows us that at least SOME places in Los Angeles haven't changed all that much since the 1930s. And lastly, we head over to London, England to present a few of the filming locations used in the classic 1955 British comedy movie "The Ladykillers."
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On location with Madonna, The Little Rascals, the 1955 British comedy classic The Ladykillers and The Three Stooges. Two of these filming locations have undergone dramatic changes (Madonna and The Little Rascals) while The Ladykillers and The Three Stooges movie locations are virtually unchanged.
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Special Event! Culver City Historical Society Watch Party!
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This Month's Filming Locations Quick Preview Videos
Madonna - Open Your Heart (1986)
A scandalous (by 1986 standards) music video from Madonna, it was nevertheless placed on heavy rotation on MTV (when MTV played music videos) which no doubt helped record sales immensely. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Top 100 chart in the USA on February 7, 1987.
Like many of Madonna's early music videos, this was filmed on location near Downtown Los Angeles. In this then and now filming locations video, notice that the location of the adult theatre set has only recently been built up, with a large apartment building now occupying the site.
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The Little Rascals - Fly My Kite (1931)
One of the most enjoyable of the Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie series, this movie has everything: Laughs, action and a great storyline that pits the Gang and Grandma against her mean son-in-law.
This quick preview of the complete then and now filming locations video takes us back to when the west side of Los Angeles was still full of wide open spaces - a big contrast compared to today where every inch of land has been built up.
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The Ladykillers (1955)
A charming British "black comedy" film starring Alec Guinness, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers and Katie Johnson as Mrs. Wilberforce. The plot involves a gang of criminals (led by Alec Guinness) robbing a bank's armored car and using kindly little old lady Mrs. Wilberforce to (unwittingly) transport the stolen money back to her house, where the gang has rented a spare bedroom (they have told Mrs. W. that they are a string quartet needing a rehearsal room).
There's a lot more to the plot, but you'll have to watch this great movie to see!
In this quick preview then and now filming location video, we visit several of the movie locations around London. Not surprisingly (it's London after all), many of these locations are easily recognizable today.
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The Three Stooges - False Alarms (1936)
The Three Stooges are employed as fire fighters (how ever did they pass the exam?!).
This quick preview of the complete then and now filming locations video shows the "fire hose" scene. This particular movie location is very much unchanged after all these decades, though the Los Angeles Railway trolley tracks in the middle of the street are long gone.
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Madonna - Open Your Heart (1986)
This groundbreaking music video from Madonna generated quite a bit of controversy when it was released in late 1986. Despite misgivings that the subject matter of the video went over the line, MTV did give this video heavy airplay and that probably helped the song reach #1 on the Billboard Top 100 chart in the USA on February 7, 1987.
The first half of the music video was filmed inside a studio, but the second half was shot on location on West Court Street just a short distance from downtown Los Angeles. An active oil well on the site of the adult theater set kept this otherwise vacant lot empty until just a few years ago when an apartment building was finally built on the site.
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The Little Rascals - Fly My Kite (1931)
A great entry in the Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie series, the climactic final scenes were shot outside on location in a large field off Overland Avenue in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles.
The photos above show how the area has changed over the years. Several of the original homes that were seen in the 1931 film managed to survive until the mid 2010s. Today, the field is no more. Several apartment houses sit on the site and those homes visible across the street in the 1931 and 2015 photos shown above have finally been replaced by a massive new apartment building.
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The Ladykillers (1955)
This 1955 movie stars Alec Guinness, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers and Katie Johnson as Mrs. Wilberforce. A gang of criminals (led by Alec Guinness) robs a bank's armored car and uses kindly little old lady Mrs. Wilberforce to (unknowingly) transport the stolen money back to her house. There's a lot more to the plot, and I strongly encourage you to watch this movie - it's very funny, in a British kind of way!
The photo above shows us Alec Guinness walking towards Mrs. Wilberforce's house. The view is looking north from in front of 34 Argyle Street in London. Every building seen in the film in 1955 at this filming location is still around today, and largely unchanged.
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The Three Stooges - False Alarms (1936)
The Three Stooges are employed as fire fighters in this comedy short from 1936. As was typical of the early Three Stooges movies, several scenes were filmed on location.
This particular scene's filming location was at the north end of North Larchmont Blvd near Melrose Avenue. As you can see in the then and now movie location photo above, not very much has changed over the decades, with the exception of the Los Angeles Railway trolley tracks no longer running down the middle of the street.
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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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