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John Bengtson

John Bengtson is a business lawyer and film historian and the author of "Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton. He lives in San Francisco. Kevin Brownlow is an authority on the silent-film era and the documentary filmmaker of "Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite, "Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow, "Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film, and "Unknown Chaplin. He is the author of "How it Happened Here and "The Parade's Gone By.