Some of Harold Lloyd's most amazing stunts and best silent comedy gags
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- Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton may be much more famous today, but in the 1920s Harold Lloyd was one of the biggest stars in silent comedy.
Music: Razzmatazz, Oh What A Whirl and Slicked Back by Jules Gaia
Clips from:
Safety Last! (1923)
Never Weaken (1921)
High and Dizzy (1920)
Girl Shy (1924)
For Heaven's Sake (1926)
Ring Up the Curtain (1919)
Number, Please? (1920)
Bumping into Broadway (1919)
The Marathon (1919)
The Freshman (1925)
Over the Fence (1917)
An Eastern Westerner (1920)
Dr. Jack (1922)
Now or Never (1920)
Speedy (1928)
A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
Hot Water (1924)
The Kid Brother (1927)
I Do (1921)
Get Out and Get Under (1920)
From Hand to Mouth (1919)
The City Slicker (1918)
Harold LLoyd did all of these stunts with only 3 fingers on his right hand. He lost his thumb and index finger in an accident early in his career. He was holding what he thought was a prop firecracker in his right hand when it went off and blew off his thumb and index finger. he designed a prosthetic glove which he wore for the rest of his career. The woman in the last scene of this clip was his wife in real life, Mildred Davis.
stunts yes but in trick photography style, to appear he was up a tall buildingm cleverly done for the year, puts todays stunts to shame really.
Lloyd was great but Stuntman Harvey Perry did a lot of the work in Safety Last! although, of course, he was never credited. He deserves recognition too.
@@ieatgremlins Who says so? Every HL expert I've read says all the close-ups in Safety Last are by Harold. Use your eyes. On the long camera shots of the building climb it was Bill Strother who was a "human fly" in real life and the supporting character actor buddy in the film. Perry MADE THE CLAIM in the 1980's Brit documentary after Harold was dead and couldn't contradict him. Perry also praised Buster Keaton in that documentary and was silent on Lloyd, strongly suggesting some kind of dislike of Harold Lloyd. He's mistaken and that's polite for lying. Perry did work on "Feet First" a Lloyd sound film.
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This is almost 100 years old and brilliant choreography, directing and editing.
Bruh,if they're talking about 1917, Than 100 years already have been gone.😶 OBVIOUSLY MAN,USE YOUR BRAIN, 1917 - 2022 = 105 years,so It's 105 Years Old footage,which is hard as hell to believe. How they recorded it.😶😎👍
@@Diplomatofficial7 some of the footage is dated 1928. That's why I said almost 100 years old.
Yes I did well. 😉
I studied this in university, I'm impressed that I found that as fun as it was well-executed, almost 100 years but still good as fuck
Lloyd, Keaton, Chaplin... they were all the great giants of silent cinema!
You gotta respectably throw Fatty Arbuckle on that list. Hollywood blackballed poor Fatty after his trial & was always looked at as a Murderer & a Sexual Predator. He wasn't guilty of that girls murder.
comedian trio :)))
Unfortunately, Chaplin gets all the press with his post stamp moustache shtick but I actually enjoy Keaton and Lloyd more...Chaplin is boring by comparison.
no love for fatty arbuckle? lighting a cig off of a moving train over his should to than be smoothly pulled onto it was amazing. i working on the rail with freight trains and being he was about 250 to 300 lbs is nothing short of amazing
Agree
100 years old and absolutely timeless, what a trailblazer :)
That's right, it's not outdated at all. As long as you have the heart to appreciate a work, it will never fade with the passage of time and will always be very interesting.
I don't understand why Chaplin became the most famous, both Lloyd and Keaton were better.
That's exactly what i thought. Chaplin was overrated imo
I agree. Buster Keaton was definitely #1.
Those moustaches don’t lie.
While Chaplin did not do dangerous stunts, once you get past his earliest slapstick shorts, you get story lines and pathos and a class political angle. Some ingenious comedy too, even if my admiration begins and ends with the screen Chaplin and not the off-screen man (Read his biography and get one NOT from a fanboy or fangirl--not a warm and fuzzy dude and best called "difficult"). But he did create some memorable films with an edge about the alleged unfairness of society, factories, rich people, and others he skewered. Lloyd and Keaton were mostly non-political and went for laughs or thrills.
Tom cruise is better !!!
Anyone else love the way the residential streets look without being full of cars.
Common sight here in Finland currently. Roads being in so bad condition, you need proper 4x4 to drive around town on tarmac roads AND fuel being so expensive, people drive way less 😅
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE DESTROY ALL CARS AND CAR DEPENDANT INFRASTRUCTURE
Yes, the horse 💩 looks great 👍. Brown landmines.
Los Angeles was beautiful then. But so was the US. Cars and suburbs have turned America into a hellscape.
Harold Lloyd was awesome!!
The last bit, taking a jab at Prohibition 😊
Harold Lloyd was my favourite!!
After using You Tube to familiarize myself with his "glasses" character, his stunts (often dangerous even with the stunt men and props used) are still mind bending. He had no modern tricks, no green screen or CGI. They just did it even if he really wasn't 12 stories off the ground. When you find out how he did the climb the building tricks and the hang on the steel I-beam tricks, you'll find it still required a guy missing two fingers to hang 12 to 15 feet above mattresses and swing his body sideways to get over that protruding building ledge or to get from one I beam to the other without falling.
If you've watched most of his films (spoiler alert) you'll find he had suicide as a theme in two of them: "Never Weaken" and "Haunted Spooks". While Harold played it strictly for laughs, it does make you wonder.
In both Haunted Spooks and Never Weaken his character's motive for suicide was because he got jilted by a girl. However in Never Weaken it was a misunderstanding. When he saw Mildred in the arms of another man he assumed that she was dumping him for the other man. It turned out that the other man was her brother and he was just ordained a clergyman.
Wasn't he also afraid of heights? his commitment was impressive.
I'm a former Brit and we had Harold Lloyd movies on a Saturday morning in the early 80s...pure class and artistry.
I loved them too ! The song was hurray for Harold Lloyd, hanging from the clock scared me
love these old movies grew up watching these on saturday's early mornings happy days
I can just imagine the script meetings..."and then I'll run along the top of a moving train trying not to get killed by the oncoming tunnel"
Whats a script?
Well they did not have modern process but they had "undercrank" on the hand cranked cameras. Meaning they slowed down the train to a low speed so HL or a stunt man could easily run across the roof of the coaches when filming but on playback the speed is double or triple fast. Risky but not as dangerous as it looks on playback at higher frames per second.
@@dave4882
A script is usually a paper or a note that plans the movie's plot and flow, You can write down dialog, action, movement, the angle, basically a note that reminds the director and the people the flow of the movie.
@@TealKuruma buster Keaton once said they didnt really follow a script, they just did what was funny. If they didnt think the shot was funny, it was dropped and they did something else.
The entire script for Douglas Fairbanks' 1922 "Robin Hood" was written on the back of an envelope.
Thanks for the refresher course! Hark, the Harold's angels sing!
Because of my grandfather Harrold lloyd was my favourite.
Silent era produced three greats -____ Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyds. Who was better is absolutely personal choice. All were incomparable.
For the scene with the mirror routine, Harold's "double" is his brother Gaylord.
"Harold Lloyd wasn't a comedian. He was a great actor playing a comedian."
Hal Roach
Vintage parkour master. Hardcore level. Epic.
What a good looking guy!
Absolutely brilliant. And still funny.
Is it just me, or was Harold Lloyd sexy too...
Known as the third genius in chapin’s era, is the master named Harold Lloyd.
One of the great masters, of doing your own (dangerous) stunts, while innovating too.
Oh very sexy 😉 I've had... Dreams lol
Handsome and funny. Definitely a Prince Charming for me 🤴❤️👸😻👍
Definitely.
Whoever put this together is amazing! I know this has been out there for a long time, but I'll go back and watch this clip at least a couple times a year just to remind myself what true great actors are in there are so few of them in our world today. At least not many people willing to put their life on the line and do their own stunts. The only actors that I can think of that dude all of their own stunts are Tom Cruise, Jackie Chan, To y Jaa, Daniel Craig, Keanu Reeves, Harrison Ford, Charlize Theron, Jason Statham.
A comic does funny things...
A brilliant comic does things funny!!!!!
И ведь тогда ещё небыло компьютеров и цифровых технологий, всё естественно. Куда нам до них с нашим кинематографом. 👍👍👍🙂
I think anyone from the 20s would faint if they saw a modern big budget movie.
where he crosses the street with the baby chair is hilarious xD
If there was a baby, the poor little one would have been traumatised
Harold Lloyd was the Jackie Chan of his day.
Thoroughly enjoyed those clips
Why hasn't anyone try to evolve this comedic direction with all the technology and resources available
I am trying.
Wow, Harold actually got away with them
Great, fantastic and immortal Harold Lloyd!!! Respect!!! 👍👍👍
hi i from indonesia i love harold lloyd
Hmmm apa kah pasukan bang winda?
@@anggareksa3605 harold llody itu artis amerika terkenal banget kayak buster keaton dan charlie chaplin
@@anggareksa3605 pelawak film bisu amerika serikat ada beberapa gak cuman charlie chaplin dan buster keaton ada roscoe arbuckle, lary semon, dan gloria swanson
@@anggareksa3605 itu pemeran film bisu as mentornya laurel and hardy
Omg, Harold is so cute
he did all these stunts with a suit and dress shoes.
And only 8 fingers after losing two in a photoshoot gone wrong due to mistaking a real bomb for a prop.
Harold Lloyd one of the *GIANTS* of the silent film era.
so if Tom Cruise were born 100 year ago, he would become comedian
need it be reminded that while he may not exactly be dangling from those extreme heights depicted, Lloyd is still doing all that hanging and climbing with one and a half hands, missing the thumb and forefinger of his right hand
Thank you. The troll who showed up to throw shade on HL should read your comment.
@will kirby Yes, a prosthetic glove with two false fingers stitched together and tight fitting over what remained of his hand. When filming they put makeup over the prosthetic hand to make it look lifelike. You can see the prosthetic glove in action starting with An Eastern Westerner, and the last half of Haunted Spooks.
Apparently they "tested" the mattress that was supposed to help Lloyd break his fall (if he fell) in Safety Last and the item they used bounced off the mattress and onto the ground. So it was still a dangerous stunt even if he is only a couple of stories high.
@@marilynsobel7414 similar situation with Laurel and Hardy filming their own “thrill” picture Liberty. Stan didn’t trust the mattress and Ollie tried to reassure him it was safe by falling on it. Needless to say, it was not safe.
@@deadpan80 I didn't know that! Thanks for the info.
Nobody---and I mean, NOBODY, can do those stunts today!!
Nobody- and I mean NOBODY- is allowed to do these stunts because of all the health and safety regulations!
@@Thomas828 And for good reason!!
Used to love watching Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy as a kid.
Harold Lloyd deserves way more respect. Truly the Tom Cruise of the silent generation!
tom cruise sucks
I’d reserve that title for Buster Keaton.
@@GeertDelmulle But Tom Cruise is nothing, really. Lloyd was brilliant, Cruise is not.
Harold's mime is great for animation ideas when you can't figure out how to compose a shot.
I can watch this stuff all day long! ❤
and now?
After 100 year we are here its amazing😍
They knew how to do REAL stunts back then. Nowadays only Tom Cruise seems to know how.
Indeed.
My great grandfather :)
No, have a compilation of his gymnastics, which Chaplin
was NEVER able to do.
Thanks 🙏 I really love it 🥰
Wait, in High And Dizzy you can see a sign that says ‘Hotel La Crosse’ and that’s the exact same place where they filmed Buster Keaton’s Three Ages 😮
Hollywood must have been really something then.
My grandad watched these in the movies back in his years when he was little.
He did all these stunts with one good hand
Damm. This stuff is just as entertaining as what's being made now.
Fascinating stuff.
Great use of trick photography of the day :)
A true legend, never forget
I love Harold and I really enjoy watching him He is funny,brave and very cute. He was a brilliant stuntman.These clips are great and the music fits perfectly too!!
I always remember my sister saying WOW he's good looking.
@@jahno7154 yes he was very handsome . That is part of the reason for the glasses which became his trademark. Hal Roach who owned the studio said he was too good looking to be funny.
@@ladywalker8200 Wait he wore glasses to make him less attractive so he could look more like a fun character to get more laughs ?
@@jahno7154 yes that's right but it didn't seem to work that well as he was still good looking in them. He didn't need glasses until he was middle aged and he actually wore empty frames on set. He looked like a different guy without them and looked like a leading man film star. He liked it when people didn't recognise him off set and could go about incognito.
@@ladywalker8200 I actually thought Lloyd looked better looking with the glasses, but very interesting thanks for the info I loved Harold Lloyd. Charlie Chaplin I was very disappointed with he is supposed to be the greatest of the silent movie comedians but not for me and Buster Keaton i don't remember him being on our tv screens here in the UK.
Why do they not produce silent films anymore? They had to use alot more expressions and did their own stunts.
I guess modern audiences don't like them i'm 24 and i love silent films
So much love for the video and the absolute opposite with the music.
Finding music to use on TH-cam with these videos is kind of tricky. My original approach was to use a bunch of vintage 1920s jazz/ragtime recordings I downloaded from archive.org, but even those were getting flagged for copyright, despite some of them being almost 100 years old.
I tried using TH-cam's free music library for a bit, but suitable options there were a bit slim, so I moved on to testing out Epidemic sound as a source of legally licensed music. I tried out quite a few options, and this artist was honestly the one I thought was the best fit for what I was going for. That first song has a ratio of 16K likes to 160 dislikes on its main TH-cam video, so I figured it was generally well received by people.
Just out of curiosity, what kind of music would you use for a video like this? I've been kind of experiment with different approaches, so I'd be open to suggestions.
Personally I thought the music was fine... the jazzy sound is vaguely 1920s but with a modern beat
@@donmchoull I also thought your choice of music worked well. Besides, it's really not the focus here. Cheers, loved the video.
@@donmchoull The music was an excellent choice.
@@donmchoull Music choice was brilliant imo, and the clicks show. Can't hit everyone's taste, one will appeal to a younger, more modern audience (like this one did), and others might have had more appeal to an older audience.
Comedia pura que me mostró mí familia xD
A pair of glasses and a smile 😅
Thank You SO Much for this Wonderful Collection of videos. With all the BS channels on YT these days, it's truly refreshing to find one that is worthwhile. Besides being entertaining, your videos provide an important Historical Archive that I am sure will be studied by Social Scientists centuries from now. The amount of time that it must have taken to compile and edit this Concise Collection is a Mind Boggler. Yet, I wish that you would upload MORE !!!
This is awesome and unique, it’s tough to appreciate how far cinema has come.
Heartthrob.
There iconic characteristics
Charlie Chaplin (The Tramp)
Buster Keaton (Stone Face)
Harold Lloyd (The Glasses)
Lloyd, Keaton, & Chaplain all seemed to be playing the same basic character: an everyman trickster navigating the world with clever improvising & dumb luck.
In one sense you're right. However, both Keaton and Lloyd did really dangerous stunts in their films and Chaplin did not. Sure he walked on a circus wire (with a net under him) and went inside with a drugged lion in a cage, but hang off buildings, fall off moving trains and streetcars, go through a tunnel on the outside of a train, NO. Keaton and Lloyd (and he had only 8 fingers and no tendons on his damaged hand) risked life and limb in a way no modern actor ever will do.
I watched him as a kid and every one I speak to had no idea who he is !
I don't understand how he did all these stunts for real
Harold Lloyd faked most of his stunts. He used a stunt double and optical illusions
A great deal of them used forced perspective, but to say he didn't do any of his own stunts is simply not true. Harold Lloyd broke his neck doing stunts.
@@MrKruger88 he was quite athletic as well
@@MrKruger88 That was Buster Keaton unless Lloyd did as well.
@@PoutinePete That was BK, but Harold In the chase to the wedding sequence in "Girl Shy" did actually hang from the power pole of a streetcar in motion, did fall off that fire engine going 35 mph when a metal piece on the unspooling fire hose hit him square in the head and sustained a concussion and stitches. He did climb two stories up a building in an early short "Ask Father". The camera doesn't lie it's him.
So all these punks on here with their trolling and it's all "fake" are just that. Uninformed punks. Just because he used perspective and a 15 foot tall prop wall in "Safety Last" takes nothing from his courage. He was using a platform on a tall buildings rooftop, placed near the roof edge, in downtown LA, filming only during mid-day heat (to avoid shadows on the street below) and with one good hand hanging for multiple minutes (until the director yelled "cut") from a clock hand. No safety railings on the platform. BK and HL took risks no actor or studio would allow or need now with CGI. We will never see their likes again.
great
They don't make 'em like this this, anymore, and it's a damn shame. Brilliant! Keaton and Lloyd were my favorites, but Lloyd earned my utmost respect given the injury to his hand from what was supposed to be a "dummy" prop. He never let that get in his way.
Harold Lloyd was one of the greatest stunt artists of all time. To do what he did and not get seriously injured was amazing
He did get hurt at one point in his life. A stunt gone wrong blew part of his right hand off. He ended up having some kind of prosthesis that covered it. In the movies, he would always make sure to show less of that hand as possible. You can see it perfectly in the stunt where he's holding unto the clock hands. It looks like a rubber glove/hand.
He did these stunts after 1919 with only 8 fingers and a rubbery looking prosthetic glove covered in makeup on his damaged right hand. In 1919 during a publicity photo shoot he picked up a prop bomb which turned out to be a real explosive which took off his right thumb and index finger and the tendons in his right palm. How he did stunts after that is just mind-bending.
Is it any wonder that Harold was the model for Superman’s Clark Kent persona?
4:20 that guy's beard is legendary.
I love his films. I love Kid Brother the best. But, he is amazing.
Hiding in the hanging coat was brilliant
Reading the comments, always the same 3 names come up. Lloyd, Keaton and Chaplin. Kinda sad no one EVER mentions Harry "Baby face" Langdon. These are to me, the 4 names that have created the best comedies of the silent movie era.
The same kind of things often happened to me. What can I say... sh*t happens.
I like Harold loyd. I look k8nd of like him and can relate
Before Jackie Chan we had Harold Lloyd
Before we had Jackie, we had buster Keaton, Harold lyodd.
Hi Don, any chance you could overlay Harold Lloyd talking about himself and his moves like you did with Buster Keaton? Or if there isn't anything available in Harold's own voice, perhaps someone else talking about him and his life?
Bro looks like he is from 2020 who went back in time.
bravo pour votre travail et partage ! felicitation
Ils avaient énormément de génie.
The hanging by the clock hands scene was a trick shot, well documented.
No, there is a documentary on You Tube showing how it was done. Hardly safe, and that is well documented. The guy had only 8 fingers and no tendons on his damaged right hand all hidden by a prosthetic glove. Also are you confusing the sound sequel from 1930 with this film? Many do.
I loved watching this and Chaplin when I was a kid.
How did you clean up the images? They're so sharp. Good edit, helped along by a new-rag soundtrack.
This is almost how these movies looked new.
Harlod and buster are just the greatest 🙌
Great music!
bellissima musica!
Who's the actress at 2:21 ? The one who smiles? That is the most sincere smile I've ever seen. It doesn't look like Bebe Daniels
Ann Christy
Always watched this in the early 80’s!
I still don't get how he did it. It chills my blood to watch it. And I am afraid that he just did it for real.
Harold Lloyd faked most of his stunts. He used a stunt double and optical illusions.
@@ryderthereactor Of course he did. Only idiots in tiktok do that kind of things.
Yup agreed.
HL did fall off that fire truck at 0:30, split open his forehead (12 stitches) and pass out. His crew thought he had a skull fracture but luckily not. The accident was cut from the film and a stunt man did the rest of the ride. Documented in a late in life interview of Harold and also in studio notes from the film "Girl Shy" documented in a biography of HL. (author: Annette D'Agostino Lloyd). On the iconic clock scene from "Safety Last" there is a documentary on YT showing how it was done. He was not free-climbing a 12 story building.
And he did all this, with only 8 fingers.
Harold Lloyd. A true giant of the silent age.
I always love to watch old time slapstick comedy shows they're actually the best and the funniest thing compared to so called modern day version of nothingness comedy shows. 👍🇺🇲💪😜🤣⌚
I heard he did all his own stunts.
Great selection! And bravo, Jules Gaia, for the music, it has the humour of the past and the beats of the present. Nice!!!
Putting someone in trouble enjoying the rest cannot be defined as comedy at all.
fantastic. love the music. anyone know the title ?
Great hilarious comedy without any swearing, rudeness or satire. 🙋♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧
They don't make them like this anymore, no one alive today could match this type of talent
Best ⚡️🔥 big respect to him
Love the soundtrack
I saw football there. I didn't know football was around back then
College football has been around from the earliest part of the last century. The NFL pros came later.