The General: Tour of Filming Locations (2009)
• November 10th, 2009 • 0h 4min
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Overview
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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