I was going to take the mystery photos dark this week as I’ve been traveling and unable to preview a mystery movie. But I decided to run this historic photo for the week.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory has identified our mysterious motorman.
Update: This is a behind the scenes shot from filming the 1927 Fox film Is Zat So? directed by Alfred E. Green. For this sequence, Fox borrowed a streetcar and built an exterior set at Fox Hills. Read more in the Pacific Electric Magazine for April 1927. The film is apparently lost.
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Looks like George O’Brien behind the wheel.
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Is this for SUNRISE? looks like F. W. Murnau standing to the left.
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Gaffers and a Red Car. Just another day on the streets of L.A..
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This is the set for SUNRISE isn’t it? Of course it could be EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE, his New York picture which came after SUNRISE.
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That could be cinematographer Joseph August with the glasses to the right. He and O’brien worked together on SEAS BENEATH, with George playing a Navy guy.
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Is that D.W. setting the scene?
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