A Day Worth Recording

By Cheeseminer

1923

No, not the time, but the date of the 'classic' silent film we went along to see this evening.  Harold Lloyd in Safety Last - the one that has Lloyd hanging from a clock face ostensibly several floors above busy Los Angeles streets.

I also got around to changing this clock from BST this evening.

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"It’s probably the most famous image of the silent era. A pasty-faced, bespectacled young man dangling from the minute hand of an enormous clock twelve stories above a city street. For years, it was thought that comedian Harold Lloyd made the dizzying ascent by himself. But after Lloyd’s death in 1970, stuntman Harvey Parry revealed that he had handled most of the really treacherous parts – the flips and near-falls. As for the clock scene, a set replicating the building’s top two floors was constructed on the roof of the actual building, with mattresses laid down in case Lloyd fell the twenty feet or so. Cameras were cleverly angled to show the street below. "

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