Charley Chase - Midsummer Mush (1933) - Filming Locations
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Historical Production & Location Reference
| Film: |
Midsummer Mush (1933) |
| Stars: |
Charley Chase |
| Studio: |
Hal Roach Studios |
Featured Historical Landmarks:
- Motor Avenue and Tabor Street Intersection: An often used filming location in Hal Roach comedies made in the 1920s and early 1930s. Used in the Charley Chase movie His Silent Racket and notably in the Our Gang / The Little Rascals 1929 movie Bouncing Babies.
- Downtown Culver City: The historic commercial core of the city, at the intersection of Main Street and Culver Blvd.
Production & Preservation Note: Through clever studio editing, Midsummer Mush weaves together distinct physical locations in Palms and downtown Culver City to seamlessly portray them as a single intersection. Highlighting Charley Chase's exceptional talent as a comic actor, this sequence provides a valuable pre-war visual history of two intersections a mile apart from each other, showing how independent street layouts were blended together to create the illusions of a single intersection.
Charley Chase is a scoutmaster leading his troop of boys on an expedition to Idyllwild (which is presumably somewhere out in the country). They get lost along the way and there is a run-in with a policeman which causes a huge traffic jam, all while Charley falls in love with a girl passing by in her car!
There are two movie filming locations shown in this excerpt from the full documentary video: One is on an often-used corner for filming in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles - the northeast corner of the intersection of Motor Avenue and Tabor Street. This is the same corner used in the 1929
Our Gang / The Little Rascals comedy
Bouncing Babies.
The other prominent filming location used in
Midsummer Mush is right in the middle of downtown Culver City, at the intersection of Main Street and Culver Blvd. Interestingly, and through clever editing, these are supposed to be just different views of the same intersection. The magic of cinema!
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