June 2025 - New Filming Location Photos Posted
A Boyz II Men music video from 1991, Laurel and Hardy and The Little Rascals plus a rare film starring Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts
Boyz II Men - Motownphilly (1991)
A number one hit in the USA in the summer of 1991, the music video for the Boyz II Men song "Motownphilly" used filming locations in the group's home town of Philadelphia. This music video is a great time capsule of the center city area, and most of those locations have held up quite well and look just as nice today as they did back then.
The filming location then and now photo above is from an early scene in the music video. That's the Delaware River and New Jersey in the distance. The group is dancing at Penn's Landing.
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Laurel and Hardy - Going Bye-Bye! (1934)
A great example of a movie inadvertently giving us a look at a historic site as it was in the distant past, the Laurel and Hardy movie "Going Bye-Bye!" filmed right in front of the old City Hall building in Culver City, California. This building appeared in dozens of movies and TV episodes throughout the 20th century up until it was torn down in the mid 1990s.
The above movie location then and now photo shows the entrance to the building as it was in 1934, and the replica of that entrance that occupies the site today.
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The Little Rascals - Small Talk (1929)
The first of The Little Rascals "talking" movies, "Small Talk" featured several scenes filmed outdoors, on location.
The Laurel and Hardy movie "Going Bye-Bye!" gave us a great look at the front of the old City Hall building in Culver City, California. This Little Rascals movie gives us a look at the side of the building on Duquesne Avenue. Today, a new City Hall building occupies the site, with part of the original building's footprint now an outdoor plaza as you can see in this then and now filming location photo.
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Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts - Sneak Easily (1932)
In the early 1930s, producer Hal Roach was looking to duplicate the success of his Laurel and Hardy movies with a female version of the team. Zasu Pitts and Thelma Todd took the roles of Laurel and Hardy, respectively, and this movie is one of the best in the series.
This particular scene was filmed at the Pacific Electric Railway's Fletcher Viaduct just to the north of Downtown Los Angeles. Originally an all wood trestle built in 1904, in 1927 the center section was replaced with a steel section and this is what we see in the movie. The viaduct lasted until 1959 and today, all that remains are the concrete footings, which have been designated by Los Angeles as a cultural monument.
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