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- The image of Harold Lloyd hanging desperately from the hands of a skyscraper clock during Safety Last! (1923) is one of the greatest icons in all of film history.
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Feb 29, 2012 · The closing scene from Safety Last! (left) was filmed on the roof of 908 S. Broadway, the same building where the clock stunt climbing set was built. The same roof (right), now supporting the steel girder foundation for a large antennae, appears during the Criterion Collection Locations and Effects mini clip.
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Audiences naturally assume that Harold Lloyd was actually hanging off the clock hands many stories above the street, and they are correct. However, Lloyd was hanging on a clock built on a platform near the edge of the top of a building at 908 South Broadway.
Aug 21, 2015 · One of the most iconic scenes in silent cinema was filmed on the roof of Western Costume Company. Whether you’ve seen the film or not, you know the image: Harold Lloyd, in a boater and round-framed glasses, hanging desperately from the hand of a large clock, dangling over the city below.
Safety Last! is a 1923 American silent romantic-comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It includes one of the most famous images from the silent-film era: Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic.
Apr 2, 2015 · One of the most famous images in film history comes from a movie that no one but silent movie nerds ever watches: in 1923's Safety Last!, Harold Lloyd hung from the hands of a clock that hung from...
Jan 14, 2012 · Harold Lloyd filmed the clock stunt from Safety Last! (1923) on the roof top of 908 S. Broadway (red oval above), just steps away from the Orpheum Theater that opened in 1926. Today the Art Deco Ninth and Broadway Building, completed in 1930, obscures the painted Orpheum Theater wall sign.
Jun 20, 2013 · For their climatic kiss, Harold and Mildred return to 908 S. Broadway, the same building where Lloyd had previously staged the sequence hanging from the hands of the clock. This setting is readily confirmed by the distinctive wall signs appearing in the background, including the extant sign for J. EPSTEIN LADIES TAILOR on the wall of 820 S ...
