The General: Tour of Filming Locations
Release date: 2009-11-10
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Genres: Documentary
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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