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Need Help Researching Intolerance on Blu-ray
Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 6:17 pm
by SilentEchoes57
Intolerance has a few identifiable historic locations, including the scene where the governor's train is stopped at the Wiseburn Station, where Buster Keaton later filmed a scene from The Goat, and the jail that later appears in the Charley Chase comedy Long Fliv The King.
Can someone who has the new Blu-ray of Intolerance check these scenes for clues?
Can anyone read the painted sign on the window, or on the cast iron lettering on the lower right? I know generally where this was filmed, but the signs would really help
Can anyone read anything here, or the sign at the back?
Can anyone make out what is says on the sidewalk?
Thank you so much for any help you can provide.
Cheers, John
Re: Need Help Researching Intolerance on Blu-ray
Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 8:50 pm
by syd
Re: Need Help Researching Intolerance on Blu-ray
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 3:56 pm
by Gaucho
Hi John--
Always appreciate your work!
See my comments below:
SilentEchoes57 wrote:
[around 33:30]
On the window: The left side appears to read "SUB" and the right "LET"
On the door:
First line reads "The"
2nd line (arched) is too small but appears to read "ME----HILL" or something close
3rd line reads "General Co."
4th line encased in black background is too small to read
5th line in cursive appears to read C[orG]ry-l--
As for the cast iron lettering, the first line isn't clear but the bottom appears to read "FOUNDRY"
Can anyone read anything here, or the sign at the back?
[around 32:44] This is probably legible on the DVD but:
"Billar[ds]"
"Mexican-"
Drink
Coca
Delicious an[d]
[around 17:02]
The sidewalk appears to read ..."omon's" (or possibly ..."aman's")
Perhaps someone with a better player/monitor may see more but...
Hope that helps-
Re: Need Help Researching Intolerance on Blu-ray
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 5:20 pm
by SilentEchoes57
Thank you Gaucho for taking a look - I appreciate it.
John
Re: Need Help Researching Intolerance on Blu-ray
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 7:35 pm
by David Alp
SilentEchoes57 wrote:
Can anyone make out what is says on the sidewalk?
Cheers, John
On the sidewalk I turned my laptop upside down and it looked to me like
_OMON 23 ( or
_OMON 13)
I am trying to think of a word that ends with OMON?
Re: Need Help Researching Intolerance on Blu-ray
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 8:05 pm
by Gaucho
It's definitely an apostrophe s.
I suspect the store's name is "[Sol]omon's" or something similar.
Watching the disc in motion, however, just after Jennings first walks over the lettering, his shadow momentarily removed some of the glare which--I thought--made it look closer to a stylized "a" than an "o."