We're looking south on Broadway in a scene filmed atop the Chapman Building on the northeast corner of 8th and Broadway in "Ignatz’s Icy Injury" (L-KO Motion Picture Company, 1916). Thanks to John Bengtson for figuring out the location and finding the image in a July 8, 1916 ad in Universal's trade magazine "The Moving Picture Weekly."
On the far right it's Hamburger's Department Store with the single-story Tally's Broadway Theatre (833 S. Broadway) to the left and the eight-story Majestic Theatre Building (845 S. Broadway) beyond. The film starred Billy Armstrong, Lucile Hudson and Reggie Morris.
The full ad for the film. The upper photo is also a shot done using the two-story elevator penthouse on the Chapman Building roof. In this one we're looking west on 8th St. with Hamburger's Department Store on the left.
John has this film, and several others with stars hanging from the outside of tall buildings, analyzed in his Silent Locations post "Early Thrill Comedies -- Who Was First?"
See the page about the Majestic Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres site for more about this legit house. It opened in 1908 and was demolished in 1933. The page on Tally's Broadway has a history of that film house. It opened in 1910 and came down in 1929 for an expansion of the department store to its north.
On IMDb: "Ignatz's Icy Injury"
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