Ages ago I watched this entire programme on PBS. I already knew of Harold Lloyd, but not a lot about him. Anyone interested in comedy, the history of film, or just entertainment in general should watch this great documentary.
Harold Lloyd just had a very lovable quality... a guy you'd like to know. His dark features and long nose carried and read well on the screen. Long arms and athletic ability added to the comedy. Then when he showed sentiment, you were won over 100%.
Considering that this documentary is more than 30 years old, there should be even less people today who knows who Harold Lloyd was. But considering we now have internet and things like UA-cam and Wikipedia, it is also possible that more people have heard about him now than when the documentary was made.
When I was a child, television showed old Harold Lloyd chapters, of course translated into Spanish, the same as the Fat and Skinny Movies, (Laurel and Hardy), as well as the Abbott and Costello comedy movies ... I grew up watching them on TV, And when I was an Adult, And I traveled to the USA for work, and it seemed, that the New Generations had never heard, or seen their programs, Minus their Movies ... the GOLDEN AGE of their Comedians and comedians , it seemed just an old lost memory ...for My is a strange thing, but for them that sad, not having memory ... Today I am 60 years old, and the things that amused me as a child are things that no one else had the opportunity to observe
If you like this Carl Davis score, you should check out "A Hard Act to Follow" (avail. on YT), his masterpiece accompanying Kevin Brownlow's excellent bio of Buster Keaton. Davis also did a fantastic score to Keaton's early full-length film, "Our Hospitality." :)
Saw "Safety Last" many years ago, in a THEATER, in a beautiful 35mm print. Everyone who left that theater was babbling happily: that movie gave all of us a real high!
Harold Lloyd was awesome and not forgotten! at least not by me! I grew up in the 70s watching him and Buster Keaton, not to mention Chaplin! I would think the city clock movie is something any self respecting movie buff would have seen and enjoy watching again and again!
Chaplin is grossly over-rated. His best film was 'Monsieur Verdoux', 'The Great Dictator' was ok but the rest merely meh. Lloyd, Keaton and even Laurel&Hardy were vastly superior to Chaplin.
Iam a new silent film 🎞 fan after just discovering these films I only knew about Charlie Chaplin and his work and other greats he worked with to many to mechain and showing all of these wonderful talented people of this era of almost of the 21th century it puts or comedy to shame these people should be celebrated as the real actors of film 🎞 just fantastic so funny beyond compare thanks 😊 you tube for presenting all the era of real acting weather comedy romance ,slap stick ,adventure , fashion also was beautiful love love the era of fashion at this time almost and over a hundred years to the day of this wonderful world of acting on all scales and in this era Iam a fan and want to join the fans of this era and celebrate these (real) talented people film makers directors , camera 🎥 men and women actors producers all involved the best in comic entertainment history just awesome great job hats 🎩 off to this era Iam gonna share and celebrate them all and I found (old) new real entertainment wow 🤩 star ⭐️ 💫 star 🌟 quality film. Thanks 😊 for presenting and Iam saving everything you present to enjoy 😉 and share with others . Thanks to awesome great people of this fantastic film 🎞 era . My new favorite leading man Rudolph Valentino the great actor of his era” and now mr.harold Lyod awesomeness and new funnest action comedy acting great” he surpassed Charlie Chan “ he should be celebrated on the level of Charlie Chan higher than him “ and on a totally higher level “ another Hollywood actor now receiving the fame he should have” I hope he has a Hollywood star 🌟 of fame from his era” and if he doesn’t why not “ he is fabulous.
I don't think Harold Lloyd was a genius. He was an average silent comedian who because of vast experience became a successful comic. He was more than Chaplin or Keaton, expert businessman and made the most of his silent film persona. He made made more feature films very cost effecient thus made more profit. I'm not downgrading his importance as a silent comic giant, but u don't see many comedians, sight Lloyd as their favorite or use his name as a great influence etc etc. Just saying. How many books are written about Harold Lloyd, not many. Keaton and Chaplin are the ones from the silent era remembered most and have the greatest impact on cinema history.
You seem to be saying that because he is not written about or is remembered as much he was not as good as the more remembered comedians. ERRONEOUS THINKING TO SAY THE LEAST.
@@gssheriff7278 My point is that his popularity should not be the sole criteria of how good you think he was. To me you seemed to be suggesting that he was not as well documented as Chaplin and others after saying he was not as good as then. If you don't like him you don't like him. That's your right. I'm just saying popularity has nothing to do with how good or bad someone is. For every Chaplin or Kezton there were people we will never hear of who might have been even better. It's all about being in the right place and the right time.
Thanks soooo much for sharing this, Harold Lloyd has been on my top list of amazing performers since i got introduced to his movies in the early 80's. UK's BBC2 used to have a Harold Lloyd clips show and i feel in love with the guy back then.Its a tragedy how few people have any idea he ever existed.
Modesty that's why....fellow people of Welsh blood were the same way, like Alfred Russell Wallace, George Henry Thomas, George Everest, Frank Lloyd Wright. Never making a fuss about what they achieved.
Thanks to Harold's amazing granddaughter, Suzanne, Harold is coming back to silent movie houses, TCM, and other wonderful things in the future. True talent like Harold's will never die, thanks to fans like you, Blowfeld20k. And yes, Harold was quite, and is, lovable! :)
The last of Thames TV's silent movie documentaries, following Hollywood, Unknown Chaplin, and Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow. Sadly, you don't see this depth of research so often nowadays.
I completely agree. I desperately yearn for the old days. I think the '80s was a golden age for quality documentaries. Now they tend to be less detailed and more biased to cater for the politically correct.
Pretty sure most of the interviews for these series were filmed pre-1980, so Brownlow and Gill must have known they'd be making these documentaries for a while. Either that, or they built part of the docs around unused interviews!
@@leemendham4788 the latter, I'm sure. Brownlow and Gill did extensive interviews for their 13 part series Hollywood. Brownlow is the consummate film historian.
Always remember seeing Harold Lloyd way back in the 70s as a kid, there was something so amazing about his antics that it was forever burnt into my memory.
You mean Chaplin's video clips on UA-cam gets many more million views then anyone else. It's like that for a reason. Chaplin will and always be the king of silent comedy.
I think one reason may be that Chaplin is the oldest, born in 1889, followed by Lloyd born in 1893, followed by Buster Keaton, 1895. The three greats. Who's the best is all one's opinion. For me, no one had the balls Keaton had.
Harold Lloyd is a great comic genuis, wealthy, smart and next to Chaplin the wealthiest. Unfortunate talkies he never caught the same gold except his movie, The milky way. We all have favorites, Keaton his mine, Laurel and Hardy.
I was reading some reviews of "Grandma''s Boy" on Old Fulton NY Postcards and it was as if nothing like it had ever been on screen before. The praise was off the charts and unanimous. In Brooklyn, it was supposed to run for two weeks but they had to change that to five. I had never heard of the film, but at the time it was the as if the heavens over Hollywood parted, and these five reels dropped down. HL was pretty much top of the charts that year, and it wasn't even a "thrill" film.
Thank you very much for sharing. It takes me back to school days when I used to watch HL's fabulous clips - haven't seen the Thames TV jingle for a few decades til tonight!
To all those responding to my comments on Harold Lloyd, breath, I prefer Keaton, sorry, not saying he wasn't a genius, he was, and he didn't have picadillos like Keaton which held him back at that time. Keaton was a visionary, Lloyd was the comedian of the time, roaring 20s type. It's just preference man, how many present day comedians or past mention Lloyd as an influence. None. Doesn't mean for his time he wasn't loved. He was, his movies made most money.
It must have cost them a lot to pull those stunts, especially time... It was a pure HARD WORK personified....this films were short hundred years ago with little or no technology, every bit look so real and close up... I wonder how they do that, better than today's CGI movies..REST IN PEACE TO ALL THESE MEN MEHN...
Harold Lloyd was the first COMIC ACTOR. Actors who were funny, rather than a comedy clown like Chaplin and Keaton. Another example: Stan Laurel was a comedian, but Ollie was a comic actor.
I'm in Uk, I used to watch Harold Lloyd, it would be on BBC2 at 5pm/6pm weekdays, Brilliant, Great Memories, I think when it finished i remember Fresh Prince of Belair replaced it.
I appreciate comments on Lloyd, by far his movies made the most money of all the silent clowns in the 1920s, his the boy next door stuck with the audience, his predictable humour was appreciated by his audience for sure. Keaton is an acquired taste when compared to Chaplins Tramp and Lloyd's glasses character. Keaton in my opinion was way ahead of the curve in his comedies, you have to think and observe closely to understand the joke, like the Rod Serling for science fiction, or like Ernie Kovacs, for TV. Rule breakers that created outside of box from the normal. Keaton was also one, if the greatest film directors and performers of the silent era. Keaton is by far noted as one of the greatest influences on comedians that followed after, plus if see list of greatest films ever, or greatest silent films, he has several listed.
I was able to watch a number of silent films in my college film classes, and the BEST SIGHT GAG that I ever saw in any film was the one in which Harold Lloyd ties a rope around his waist, with the other end attached to a giant's aching tooth! Then, after he runs to the end of it, the giant's tooth PULLED him BACK!!!
many many moons ago the bbc played Harold Lloyd films at the end of childrens tv/start of early evening programs, between 5 and 6, and theywere great :)
@@mel_bee That all depence on if the list is for only 3, but in fact there is no real rule on how many we can put on top. Like there is a top 20, 50 and even a top 100. So there is no limit like that. If really want a top, there can then only be 1 and not even 3. So we then have only Chaplin and then we can cut away the rest. So a top 3 as such don't exist as such.
I grew up in 1970's England and we were spoon fed old black and white Hollywood films, Buster Keaton was good, Charlie Chaplin was better but Harold feckin Lloyd was outstanding, we all talked about Harold and never missed a film, the only ones to come close were Laurel and Hardy but they were just comedy :)
These Lloyd shorts are full of the same gags that remind me of Bugs Bunny cartoons. Surely, they must have been inspired and influenced over there at Warner Bros. Cartoons.
Ages ago I watched this entire programme on PBS.
I already knew of Harold Lloyd, but not a lot about him.
Anyone interested in comedy, the history of film, or just entertainment in general should watch this great documentary.
Harold Lloyd just had a very lovable quality... a guy you'd like to know. His dark features and long nose carried and read well on the screen. Long arms and athletic ability added to the comedy. Then when he showed sentiment, you were won over 100%.
Loved watching Harold Lloyd when I came in from school. Legend 👍🏆
Considering that this documentary is more than 30 years old, there should be even less people today who knows who Harold Lloyd was. But considering we now have internet and things like UA-cam and Wikipedia, it is also possible that more people have heard about him now than when the documentary was made.
When I was a child, television showed old Harold Lloyd chapters, of course translated into Spanish, the same as the Fat and Skinny Movies, (Laurel and Hardy), as well as the Abbott and Costello comedy movies ... I grew up watching them on TV, And when I was an Adult, And I traveled to the USA for work, and it seemed, that the New Generations had never heard, or seen their programs, Minus their Movies ... the GOLDEN AGE of their Comedians and comedians , it seemed just an old lost memory ...for My is a strange thing, but for them that sad, not having memory ...
Today I am 60 years old, and the things that amused me as a child are things that no one else had the opportunity to observe
His scary movies I saw as a small child contributed to my lifelong acrophobia. Thanks a lot Harold!
Let's have a round of applause for the composer and performance of the modern sound track which fits the movies brilliantly.
If you like this Carl Davis score, you should check out "A Hard Act to Follow" (avail. on YT), his masterpiece accompanying Kevin Brownlow's excellent bio of Buster Keaton. Davis also did a fantastic score to Keaton's early full-length film, "Our Hospitality." :)
What this guy did was totally insane especially considering he was missing a thumb and finger on one hand ( in safety last)
I can't watch it, I know he doesn't fall I just can't watch it.
@@phillipbooth5378 Hahaha, I know, it seems impossible what he did. This man was blessed with fearlessness, no doubt..
Thumb & finger isn't that catastrophic overall.
i guess Im kind of randomly asking but do anyone know of a good website to stream newly released tv shows online ?
@Evan Stephen Flixportal
Used to watch Harold Lloyd with my dad years ago. My dad loved him (and I do, too).
Saw "Safety Last" many years ago, in a THEATER, in a beautiful 35mm print. Everyone who left that theater was babbling happily: that movie gave all of us a real high!
Harold Lloyd was awesome and not forgotten! at least not by me! I grew up in the 70s watching him and Buster Keaton, not to mention Chaplin! I would think the city clock movie is something any self respecting movie buff would have seen and enjoy watching again and again!
I loved it, old Hollywood and its talent was the best.
"Hooray to Harold Lloyd"
This guy was good his stunts remind me of Jackie chan a little minus the martial arts but way more adventurous
Lloyd, Chaplin, Keaton, all brilliant... but for me, Stan Laurel was the greatest comedian the world will ever see.
Stan & Ollie ( movie ) is an excellent look at the later stage of their career, check it out if you haven’t seen it 👍
Ah! This is who the creators of Futurama were paying homage to when they introduced Dr. Zoidberg's uncle, Harold Zoid!
I grew up in Central America and we knew about HL. He was absolutely hilarious. I like him better than Chaplin.
Same here. There was a sincerity to Lloyd and Keaton that no one else had, not even Chaplin.
Oh easily better. Never did get Chaplins appeal.
Harold Lloyd's best could not touch the best few films of Chaplin... HL was great, but Keaton and Chaplin were sublime artists.
Chaplin is grossly over-rated. His best film was 'Monsieur Verdoux', 'The Great Dictator' was ok but the rest merely meh.
Lloyd, Keaton and even Laurel&Hardy were vastly superior to Chaplin.
@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 utter rot
Absolute clear minded genius. Totally understood the technical capabilities of the time, and my, what hath he wrought!
"Mr. Roach, where are we going to film today?"
"Yes."
He also is a handsome man...
A real star
John Connor's School of Expression? There must have been a big terminator problem back in the day.
The scariest thing about these films are the cops who smack you on the head with a truncheon for walking on the sidewalk during the hours of daylight.
Wowza
Hooray for Harold Lloyd do do do do do do dodo do
does anyone know the name of the movie where Harald Lloyd played the cowardly lion? I can't find it anywhere
Silence is Golden and its gags skits slap stick pure yellow like Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Grandma's Boy
We were at the start. Of everything. How can that be?
A good looking man.
Nobody was better than Buster Keaton to me
Genius shines through but it feels like Harold Lloyd would have an easier time in today's Hollywood than the more unique Chaplin or Keaton.
Futurama is the only reason I know who this guy was.
Iam a new silent film 🎞 fan after just discovering these films I only knew about Charlie Chaplin and his work and other greats he worked with to many to mechain and showing all of these wonderful talented people of this era of almost of the 21th century it puts or comedy to shame these people should be celebrated as the real actors of film 🎞 just fantastic so funny beyond compare thanks 😊 you tube for presenting all the era of real acting weather comedy romance ,slap stick ,adventure , fashion also was beautiful love love the era of fashion at this time almost and over a hundred years to the day of this wonderful world of acting on all scales and in this era Iam a fan and want to join the fans of this era and celebrate these (real) talented people film makers directors , camera 🎥 men and women actors producers all involved the best in comic entertainment history just awesome great job hats 🎩 off to this era Iam gonna share and celebrate them all and I found (old) new real entertainment wow 🤩 star ⭐️ 💫 star 🌟 quality film. Thanks 😊 for presenting and Iam saving everything you present to enjoy 😉 and share with others . Thanks to awesome great people of this fantastic film 🎞 era . My new favorite leading man Rudolph Valentino the great actor of his era” and now mr.harold Lyod awesomeness and new funnest action comedy acting great” he surpassed Charlie Chan “ he should be celebrated on the level of Charlie Chan higher than him “ and on a totally higher level “ another Hollywood actor now receiving the fame he should have” I hope he has a Hollywood star 🌟 of fame from his era” and if he doesn’t why not “ he is fabulous.
So Harold Lloyd did Cantinflas before Mario Moreno.
🎋🕊✨
Hi there, Lloyd was insane brilliant
I guess the other two were Chaplin and Keaton.
Foxy sure was FOXY:)
@Giada Lovelace xxHistoricallyHauntedxx -SL wow you're right :)
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I don’t think Roach and Lloyd liked each other very much lol
Stan Laurel certainly didn't like Roach.
He was a true traditional Catholic that was protected from above!
Then how do you account for his Masonic membership in the Shriners? He was a big contributor and member of their hospital projects team.
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6:56 sorry???!!! Ryan Reynolds doppelganger??
I don't see it at all.
I see it a bit
I don't think Harold Lloyd was a genius. He was an average silent comedian who because of vast experience became a successful comic. He was more than Chaplin or Keaton, expert businessman and made the most of his silent film persona. He made made more feature films very cost effecient thus made more profit. I'm not downgrading his importance as a silent comic giant, but u don't see many comedians, sight Lloyd as their favorite or use his name as a great influence etc etc. Just saying. How many books are written about Harold Lloyd, not many. Keaton and Chaplin are the ones from the silent era remembered most and have the greatest impact on cinema history.
You fucking self important twat.
Compodent?
You seem to be saying that because he is not written about or is remembered as much he was not as good as the more remembered comedians. ERRONEOUS THINKING TO SAY THE LEAST.
I'm not saying that at all. Of course he was popular, I appreciate his comedies but think he was a lesser genius than Keaton. By far.
@@gssheriff7278 My point is that his popularity should not be the sole criteria of how good you think he was. To me you seemed to be suggesting that he was not as well documented as Chaplin and others after saying he was not as good as then. If you don't like him you don't like him. That's your right. I'm just saying popularity has nothing to do with how good or bad someone is. For every Chaplin or Kezton there were people we will never hear of who might have been even better. It's all about being in the right place and the right time.
Been watching a lot of silent movies.....the world is too much right now.
I have too ! A great comfort in these terrible times.
@Giada Lovelace xxHistoricallyHauntedxx -SL Wonderful - what talents they both were !
I so agree with you
what do you mean by "the world is too much right now"?
Mmm mm m . Amen🙏
Thanks soooo much for sharing this, Harold Lloyd has been on my top list of amazing performers since i got introduced to his movies in the early 80's. UK's BBC2 used to have a Harold Lloyd clips show and i feel in love with the guy back then.Its a tragedy how few people have any idea he ever existed.
Modesty that's why....fellow people of Welsh blood were the same way, like Alfred Russell Wallace, George Henry Thomas, George Everest, Frank Lloyd Wright. Never making a fuss about what they achieved.
And he was actually a very charming REAL comedian !
Thanks to Harold's amazing granddaughter, Suzanne, Harold is coming back to silent movie houses, TCM, and other wonderful things in the future. True talent like Harold's will never die, thanks to fans like you, Blowfeld20k. And yes, Harold was quite, and is, lovable! :)
Yes, Fileas Fog. Harold was an amazingly kind, and giving man. May he rest in light.
Funny enough that's where I first saw him on BBC2 clip shows... I can still hum the theme tune....
Talk about amazing practical special effects!! Astonishing!!
Great stunt work too! Legendary
Now just another name in the history books.??! What utter bollocks! He was a god. Better than Chaplin by far.
Harold Lloyd was an absolute GENIUS , not sure why people don't know him !! , If your an Actor then it should be compulsory !!
The last of Thames TV's silent movie documentaries, following Hollywood, Unknown Chaplin, and Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow. Sadly, you don't see this depth of research so often nowadays.
I completely agree. I desperately yearn for the old days. I think the '80s was a golden age for quality documentaries. Now they tend to be less detailed and more biased to cater for the politically correct.
so hope one day Hollywood series gets to dvd but rights likely to supper that idea
Wow, these interviews were all captured just in time. These famous people have all passed away by now!
Pretty sure most of the interviews for these series were filmed pre-1980, so Brownlow and Gill must have known they'd be making these documentaries for a while. Either that, or they built part of the docs around unused interviews!
They live on thru their work but with Lloyd the fire of his film library destroyed a lot of his work with no copies made sadly.
@@leemendham4788 the latter, I'm sure. Brownlow and Gill did extensive interviews for their 13 part series Hollywood. Brownlow is the consummate film historian.
@@seltaeb3302 The acetate and film emulsions used were unstable, corroded and highly combustible.
Even when you know he is perfectly safe it's still an adrenaline trip, as well as a hilarious laugh-fest. Just great.
Harold Lloyd is my go to silent film star. Couldn’t take to Chaplin or Keaton.
Always remember seeing Harold Lloyd way back in the 70s as a kid, there was something so amazing about his antics that it was forever burnt into my memory.
Big shout out to Benny Hill for bringing sight comedy into modern television.
He's a million times better than Chaplin and it's absolutely criminal he isn't as famous or well loved as Chaplin!
You mean Chaplin's video clips on UA-cam gets many more million views then anyone else. It's like that for a reason. Chaplin will and always be the king of silent comedy.
I think one reason may be that Chaplin is the oldest, born in 1889, followed by Lloyd born in 1893, followed by Buster Keaton, 1895. The three greats. Who's the best is all one's opinion. For me, no one had the balls Keaton had.
I love Harold Lloyd..he was amazing
Excellent. That "Safety Last" episode on the side of the building must be one of the lengthiest pieces of extended comedy ever performed
Not THE third genius, a TRUE genius!!!!!!!
Harold Lloyd is a great comic genuis, wealthy, smart and next to Chaplin the wealthiest. Unfortunate talkies he never caught the same gold except his movie, The milky way. We all have favorites, Keaton his mine, Laurel and Hardy.
Watched a lot of him here in Scotland he was on the television every week , just brilliant
I absolutely love Harold Lloyd
Glad they got these interviews while those people where still alive.
I was reading some reviews of "Grandma''s Boy" on Old Fulton NY Postcards and it was as if nothing like it had ever been on screen before. The praise was off the charts and unanimous. In Brooklyn, it was supposed to run for two weeks but they had to change that to five. I had never heard of the film, but at the time it was the as if the heavens over Hollywood parted, and these five reels dropped down. HL was pretty much top of the charts that year, and it wasn't even a "thrill" film.
The music by Carl Davis is perfect.
I want to know what speedy's first tune is called 😔
I totally fell in love with Harold over the last few months. 😍😍😍❤️
Absolutely amazing. I wonder if young people can appreciate the skill and creativity it took to do this since it can all be accomplished now with CG.
Probably not
Better than Charlie I reckon, and equal to Buster and Stan and Ollie.
My family had a Harold Lloyd night, everyone would come to dinner than at 7:30, Thursday, we'd watch him, that was in the 70s
Thank you very much for sharing. It takes me back to school days when I used to watch HL's fabulous clips - haven't seen the Thames TV jingle for a few decades til tonight!
The man was truly a comic genius. And yes, those scenes way up high are nightmares!
He's a million times better than Chaplin and it's absolutely criminal he isn't as famous or well loved as Chaplin!
He was very, very fit. To perform all those stunts in such an effortless way!
To all those responding to my comments on Harold Lloyd, breath, I prefer Keaton, sorry, not saying he wasn't a genius, he was, and he didn't have picadillos like Keaton which held him back at that time. Keaton was a visionary, Lloyd was the comedian of the time, roaring 20s type. It's just preference man, how many present day comedians or past mention Lloyd as an influence. None. Doesn't mean for his time he wasn't loved. He was, his movies made most money.
He was CRAZY.
In a good way.
Early eighties in Britain Harold Lloyd was on every evening at about 6 30. Always loved him.
Harold was fantastic!
Even knowing how he did these movies he was a skillful performer and you believed it Even today Saftey Last is wonderful and thrilling
For me, Chaplin was the distant third when it comes to genius... as well as distant third when it comes to the enjoyability of watching their movies.
Harold Lloyd a man of great imagination.
It must have cost them a lot to pull those stunts, especially time... It was a pure HARD WORK personified....this films were short hundred years ago with little or no technology, every bit look so real and close up... I wonder how they do that, better than today's CGI movies..REST IN PEACE TO ALL THESE MEN MEHN...
Harold Lloyd was the first COMIC ACTOR. Actors who were funny, rather than a comedy clown like Chaplin and Keaton. Another example: Stan Laurel was a comedian, but Ollie was a comic actor.
Brilliant.
"Harold Lloyd; a pair of (lens free) glasses and a smile"
I'm in Uk, I used to watch Harold Lloyd, it would be on BBC2 at 5pm/6pm weekdays, Brilliant, Great Memories, I think when it finished i remember Fresh Prince of Belair replaced it.
I was 23 in 89 I knew who he was very well
52 minutes well spent!
I remember watching his shows back in the late 70's and in my opinion he was far superior to other comedians of his times.
They were movies, actually.
Harlod Lyod is my new comedy hero awesome creative harlious
His stunts were real
Harold Lloyd was up there with the greats....Keaton, Chaplin, Arbuckle etc..upper echelon on slapstick comedy.
I just watched The Freshman. The picture is almost 100 years old and still great!
He was always my favorite! 😄😄😄😊😉👍👍
I appreciate comments on Lloyd, by far his movies made the most money of all the silent clowns in the 1920s, his the boy next door stuck with the audience, his predictable humour was appreciated by his audience for sure. Keaton is an acquired taste when compared to Chaplins Tramp and Lloyd's glasses character. Keaton in my opinion was way ahead of the curve in his comedies, you have to think and observe closely to understand the joke, like the Rod Serling for science fiction, or like Ernie Kovacs, for TV. Rule breakers that created outside of box from the normal. Keaton was also one, if the greatest film directors and performers of the silent era. Keaton is by far noted as one of the greatest influences on comedians that followed after, plus if see list of greatest films ever, or greatest silent films, he has several listed.
Чаплин, Китон, Гарольд - замечательные режиссеры и актеры!
He was the first master of parkour.
I discovered his movies in the early seventies, both captivating and totally entertaining.
How's it possible that I'm interested in Harold? I'm born in 1973
Why not??
I am born in 1997
Me too
Nechropheliac?
I was born in 70 and love Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd. They will never be topped.
I was able to watch a number of silent films in my college film classes, and the BEST SIGHT GAG that I ever saw in any film was the one in which Harold Lloyd ties a rope around his waist, with the other end attached to a giant's aching tooth! Then, after he runs to the end of it, the giant's tooth PULLED him BACK!!!
I loved Harold Lloyd as a kid. (and no i'm not that old) I still remember being amazed at the clocktower scene in "safety last"
many many moons ago the bbc played Harold Lloyd films at the end of childrens tv/start of early evening programs, between 5 and 6, and theywere great :)
Better than Chaplin.......
But not better than Buster Keaton ;)
+Jesper Kragh Yeah,sure!
@@josephcalderon906 Now I just have to find out where to put Harry Langdon.
@@mel_bee That all depence on if the list is for only 3, but in fact there is no real rule on how many we can put on top. Like there is a top 20, 50 and even a top 100. So there is no limit like that. If really want a top, there can then only be 1 and not even 3. So we then have only Chaplin and then we can cut away the rest. So a top 3 as such don't exist as such.
I grew up in 1970's England and we were spoon fed old black and white Hollywood films, Buster Keaton was good, Charlie Chaplin was better but Harold feckin Lloyd was outstanding, we all talked about Harold and never missed a film, the only ones to come close were Laurel and Hardy but they were just comedy :)
These Lloyd shorts are full of the same gags that remind me of Bugs Bunny cartoons. Surely, they must have been inspired and influenced over there at Warner Bros. Cartoons.
'Thrill pictures'
That is a wonderful description. 👍🎥