John Bengtson

John Bengtson is a business lawyer and film historian whose books Silent Echoes, Silent Traces, and Silent Visions explore the early Hollywood history hidden in the background of the films of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Harold Lloyd. John's work has been hailed by the New York Times as a "Proustian collage of time and memory, biography and history, urban growth and artistic expression." John has presented his work at events hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Turner Classic Movie Channel Film Festival, both Film Forum and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, USC, UCLA, and the American Cinematheque, and has prepared bonus programs for many Keaton, Chaplin, and Lloyd DVD/Blu-rays. John lives in the Bay Area. For tours, maps, presentations, and new discoveries, visit John's blog: http://SilentLocations.com/