[HN Gopher] How Harold Lloyd Filmed "Safety Last!"
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       How Harold Lloyd Filmed "Safety Last!"
        
       Author : gus_massa
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2020-07-13 17:51 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | 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&...
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       | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Safety_First/XxqjIqE4yq...
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       | > "The modern Safety First movement was born at United States
       | Steel in 1906"
       | 
       | I was kind of surprised that "Safety First" is that old.
        
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