[HN Gopher] How Harold Lloyd Filmed "Safety Last!" ___________________________________________________________________ How Harold Lloyd Filmed "Safety Last!" Author : gus_massa Score : 41 points Date : 2020-07-13 17:51 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (silentlocations.com) (TXT) w3m dump (silentlocations.com) | moomin wrote: | It's common to make allowances when watching cinema from previous | eras to make allowances for the times. With Safety Last, though, | it is hard to see how one could possibly make a better version | today. The restrictions such as the lack of sound, the black and | white and the utter lack of post-production are completely | embraced to make something you couldn't make another way, and the | pacing is razor-tight even by modern standards. | pantaloony wrote: | I've found a lot of the better comedies from that period | (Chaplin, Keaton) to be damn near timelessly good. Art films | are hit-or-miss but when they hit they seem, similarly, just as | interesting and powerful as they must have been then. It's the | dramas that consistently struggle, IMO, with even the best | requiring some serious patience and acclimatization to the time | & style to enjoy. | salimmadjd wrote: | Harold Lloyd lost part of his hand when one of those comedy era | bombs blew up on him. In all his later movies he has a | prosthesis. | twic wrote: | Essentially completely unrelated, but this is also a very good | film about safety - "Forklift Truck Driver Klaus": | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DILjd69C0o | DoofusOfDeath wrote: | If we're really going down this tangent, then here's my | personal favorite safety film: [0] | | [0] https://www.rifftrax.com/shake-hands-with-danger | csours wrote: | I just heard the musical sting. | | Just the song if that's what you want: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmrs9GYkbqg | csours wrote: | https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?corpus=26&smoothing=3&... | | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Safety_First/XxqjIqE4yq... | | > "The modern Safety First movement was born at United States | Steel in 1906" | | I was kind of surprised that "Safety First" is that old. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-07-14 23:01 UTC)