18 Replies to “Harold Lloyd”

  3. Mountains seem a little boring for a guy like with climbing and balancing skills like that.
    Incredible to watch. Got the tingly feet a couple of times with him trying to get over the ledge at the top of the building. What confidence to do that with the camera rolling and making it seem so easy!
    Got to wonder if this is the same family line as the transmission tower climber-guy?

  4. For a minute there I thought it could have been “Safety Last” 192_9 which is when the stock market crashed.
    Free climbing tall buildings in a single bound!
    Kudos to a true entertainer!!
    Prosit!
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  6. Amazing, and Angelina Jolie brags about doing a stunt in Salt where she walks a ledge of a building with safety harnesses – the scene is a short one.
    Now that’s a real stuntman – talk about talented. I wonder how many takes that took. Free climbers would love this clip.
    Hans Rupprecht – I thought the same thing.

  8. Forgot to mention.. the most amazing part is that he did this stuff with only 8 fingers…

  9. Good video, I liked the sound track (vs the music track) which a lot of current “actors” should mimic.

  10. Aaah Kate – you know just the right medicine for a rainy Sunday morning. Thanks.
    MM

  12. Alas, the stuff noted re: IMBD is true. But notice how long people were fooled by Safety Last’s effects (which are really not effects as we understand them so much as in camera tricks and angles) compared to the crappy CGI we get today, which is often so patently phony.
    Not always: something as simple as inserting the World Trade Center in the last shot of Munich, or the “murder with fire extinguisher” scene in Irreversible serve a purpose and fool the eye for the brief time necessary. But at extended intervals, CGI is too much like visual aspertame.
    Anyway, Buster Keaton’s stunts are more impressive overall. Or even Jackie Chan’s

  14. Back To The Future did a tribute to Harold Lyoyd in 2 parts of the movie. The first was the opening scene as the camera scan Dr.browns home as marty drops by,you see the famous Harold Llyod shot of him hanging from the clock Arms. The second scene is when Christopher Lloyd ( not related) climbs to the clock tower to hook-up the Electrical cable and he slips to dangle from the clock as the connector snags on his pants and he must reach down to get it and wrap around the Arms as he slide down the cable to fall on his back just as lightening hits the clock and powers-up the Dolorea to send Marty home.
    Most people I know never saw the Harold Lloyd tribute and the possible loose tie to Christopher Lloyd as Dr.Brown .
    Check it out on a youtube clip of the opening part of BTTF-1 for the 8×10 photo near all the clocks ticking and the news paper story of “Brown Mansion” burns down,the mansion fire explains why the Burger King in on the land and Dr.Brown lives in whats left of the garage section.
    The other loose tie was the dog named Einstein because Albert Einstein died around June 1955 just before Marty arrives in the fall of 1955,and later on in the series Howdy Doody show wakes up Marty at 7:00am because it was shown in New York at 10:00am in 1955 instead of the L.A. studio version since video tape wasn’t used until the 1956 Johnathan Winters Show and some TV was re-broadcaster from the live signal relayed to California.
    This is why i think Dr.Brown was amazed at Marty’s JVC video camera in 1955 just 1 year before the 1956 TV VTR wide tape prior to 3/4″ VHS invented by JVC.
    Anyway, i read too much and maybe watch too closely during movies and remember little details.

  15. An actor that was not only a subtle comic genius. He was a very physical being. Most stunts he did himself. I think he was better than Chaplin.
    Although Chaplin was more into social causes.
    We don’t see many Renaissance actors anymore. Those equally at home in the live theater or movies. Villain or hero, they make you believe.
    People who created illusions, without a script writer.
    We can enjoy his legacy thanks to film for a good while.
    JMO

  16. Very funny…albeit in a heart-stopping kind of way.
    Makes me think back to the days where we did not have kids on drugs, crime going rampant and mayhem in the streets.
    And I am just talking about the ’50s, when I was a kid, not the ’20s.
    *sigh* I am fearful of what my grandson is going to experience when he grows up…

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