Comments on: The Liberty Alley http://www.waxapple.org/articles/archives/58/ The Premiere Research Journal Devoted to Laurel and Hardy and the Hal Roach All-Stars Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:56:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jeff http://www.waxapple.org/articles/archives/58/#comment-42 jeff Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:28:03 +0000 http://www.waxapple.org/articles/archives/58#comment-42 I was watching a silent Our Gang comedy titled "Official Officers" last week. There is a scene in this movie which seems to feature the 'Liberty Alley'. You can notice the same piece of plaster missing from the bricks - and those 3 windows (the middle window located higher than the other 2) seem to match up. Could this possibly be the first time the 'Liberty Alley' is featured in a film? Title cards in "Official Officers" dub this alley as 'Wildcat Alley'. There is also a very brief scene later in "Official Officers" which features a policeman standing on a street corner with a small building in the background. It appears to me that possibly this is the same location where Oliver Hardy fell into a mud hole in "Angora Love". I'm less sure that I'm correct in this particular analysis. I was watching a silent Our Gang comedy titled “Official Officers” last week. There is a scene in this movie which seems to feature the ‘Liberty Alley’. You can notice the same piece of plaster missing from the bricks – and those 3 windows (the middle window located higher than the other 2) seem to match up. Could this possibly be the first time the ‘Liberty Alley’ is featured in a film? Title cards in “Official Officers” dub this alley as ‘Wildcat Alley’.

There is also a very brief scene later in “Official Officers” which features a policeman standing on a street corner with a small building in the background. It appears to me that possibly this is the same location where Oliver Hardy fell into a mud hole in “Angora Love”. I’m less sure that I’m correct in this particular analysis.

]]> By: Mr. Farrell http://www.waxapple.org/articles/archives/58/#comment-39 Mr. Farrell Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:44:48 +0000 http://www.waxapple.org/articles/archives/58#comment-39 The dialogue scene in the car in "Going Bye-Bye!" was filmed in front of the Culver City City Hall (which also served as "County Hospital"). The City Hall was located further southwest down Culver Boulevard, the same street that ran in front of the "Liberty" alley. The dialogue scene in the car in “Going Bye-Bye!” was filmed in front of the Culver City City Hall (which also served as “County Hospital”). The City Hall was located further southwest down Culver Boulevard, the same street that ran in front of the “Liberty” alley.

]]> By: Find Hats Off http://www.waxapple.org/articles/archives/58/#comment-38 Find Hats Off Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:27:14 +0000 http://www.waxapple.org/articles/archives/58#comment-38 They sure liked that alley! Thank you for this article and photos. It's always interesting to learn new tidbits of information about the Boys' films. Here's something that somebody at the Laurel and Hardy Forum website noticed. It appears that the same corner that Laurel and Hardy ran around in Duck Soup to grab that bicycle is the same corner that they ran around (the other way) in trying to escape from that goat in Angora Love, their last silent film, 2 and half years later (Duck Soup was filmed around September, 1926, and Angora Love was filmed in March, 1929). Also, there's a railroad crossing and track that seems to run parallel with another street. Is that around the same place where they filmed the dialog in the car in Going Bye Bye? They sure liked that alley! Thank you for this article and photos. It’s always interesting to learn new tidbits of information about the Boys’ films. Here’s something that somebody at the Laurel and Hardy Forum website noticed. It appears that the same corner that Laurel and Hardy ran around in Duck Soup to grab that bicycle is the same corner that they ran around (the other way) in trying to escape from that goat in Angora Love, their last silent film, 2 and half years later (Duck Soup was filmed around September, 1926, and Angora Love was filmed in March, 1929). Also, there’s a railroad crossing and track that seems to run parallel with another street. Is that around the same place where they filmed the dialog in the car in Going Bye Bye?

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