One Week (1920) – Filming Locations
Comedy · Directed by Buster Keaton · Starring Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely
Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.
Where was One Week filmed?
- Los Angeles, United States, Los Angeles – The runaway house on railroad tracks; opening and closing sequences with the train. The iconic image of Keaton's house stranded on the railroad tracks was filmed using actual Southern Pacific Railroad locations in the Los Angeles area
- Los Angeles, United States, Los Angeles – Multiple exterior sequences as the house travels through various landscapes and obstacles. Various neighborhoods and streets in the Los Angeles area and Pasadena region were used for the house's journey and the numerous comedic mishaps and encounters
- Santa Monica, United States, Santa Monica – The climactic sequence where the house nearly goes off the pier into the ocean. The famous Keaton gag of the house approaching the edge of the Santa Monica Pier and nearly plunging into the Pacific Ocean provides the film's dramatic finale