Safety Last! Famous Scene
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Harold Lloyd's iconic scene in the silent film "Safety Last" (1923).
One of the most famous images from the silent film era with Lloyd
clutching the hands of a large clock from the outside of a skyscraper.
When the rope ends and he grabs the building again is absolutely hair raising. The overhang moments and teetering on the top ledge are truly terrifying, incredible work, balls of steel
It's nearly 100 years old and it still puts me on edge!
97 years now...
98 now
98 and a half now
@@eyescreamcake nearly 99
Now 2022 😁
It was incredibly creative how they dreamed up this scene in 1923.
Fun Fact : Harold Lloyd Actually Falling From That Thing
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When you compare this to what they do now with quick camera shots, green screens, computer special effects, this wins hands down in my opinion. Because it’s truly realistic and suspenseful. In our constant need for bigger and splashier special effects we have lost something elemental and replaced it with something shallow
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Because there’s no need to do this kind of stuff anymore where someone could get seriously hurt. Plus too much money in movies now to ever let your star try this stuff.
@@letsssgooo4618 That was true back then, too. There are tricks used here also -- but they look real, which is why it works. As opposed to that phony CGI crap. And the constant cutting and tight closeups take away from the effect. (Which is why Fred Astaire insisted that his dance scenes be shot in full body and without cutting. It's much more impressive that way -- you're really seeing something happening, instead of your mind imagining it via the editing.)
It just came back to me that i used to watch Harold Lloyd with my grandad. I showed this scene to my 5 year old daughter who laughed and shirked in all the right places - timeless.
This guy was awesome! he was was missing two or three fingers on his right hand and used a prosthetic type of glove to hide it, and he was still able to do his own climbing stunts.
Wow! Thanks for the interesting fact. Watta true talent.
I read up on how he lost the fingers. Yikes.
It was done by a stuntman
@@leoperez8066 He did it himself. This was actually a fake wall on the side of a skyscraper. There was a platform in case he fell
@pollypurree1834 yes. Lloyd did his own stunts.
I saw this film at the Gateway Theatre in Chicago when it was released to the public for the first time in 80 years - it had been in the vault the entire time. Talk about a full house and everyone in stitches and gasps. It was amazing. Nothing I've seen has ever come close to that experience and I doubt anything ever will.
How is Chicago Elizabeth??
One of my old favorites was Tarzan theatre with Johnny Weismueller
@@humphreykelma3245 I know this is a year ago but Chicago is worse than ever.
Whoever you are, that was fantastically enjoyable. Thank you! Here's to 101 great years of Lloyd's of Los Angeles.
This proves that Lloyd was really one of the greatest geniuses in physical comedy, absolutely on the same level as Chaplin or Keaton.
True trivia: the star of this film, Harold Lloyd, was one of the great geniuses of silent film, up there with Chaplin and Keaton. Like them, he did his own stunts. A few years before this movie, a prop bomb accidentally went off in his hand, blowing off a couple of fingers on one hand. He had a prosthetic glove made that made his damaged hand look normal. He was doing the risky stunts you see here while wearing it, meaning he was doing this stuff with only one fully functioning hand. Amazing.
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They should do a film on the life of Harold Lloyd nowadays.
Lloyd did some of the safer ones but since his death, people who did stunts for him - mainly Harvey Parry - and were sworn to secrecy during his lifetime have revealed the truth. The claim that stars like Lloyd did their own stunts was a good selling point but the studios of course knew better than to risk the health and safety of their big moneymakers. Lloyd had already lost part of his hand in an explosive stunt so he was well-warned. Even Buster Keaton - probably the greatest at athletic stunts - didn't do all his own stunts. The famous pole-vault, for instance, was done by Olympian Lee Barnes.
these legends people , harold Lloyd , buster keaton ,laurel and hardy and charlie chaplin are great actors from the slap stick movie s . .
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They really don't make movies like this anymore. The old ones really are the best.
+Nicky OldfieldDesciple in the past everything was better
Including the laws of beating your wife to death over superficial, insignificant things? Or the rampant racism? O_O Not to mention that even having a low level learning disabilities (dyslexia or dyscalculia) or being deaf or blind will get you locked up in an asylum. The past wasn't all rosy, especially those with disabilities and/or disorders. Sorry. You can have it. I want to move forward into the future and hopefully end up like Star Trek The Next Generation.... no monetary or market systems, all our needs are given and meant... racism would transfer towards other species rather with each other. We humans must evolve beyond what we have now.
Nicky OldfieldDesciple I wonder why they don't make movies like this anymore? Probably because nobody will pay to see it and it will bomb...
Old is gold
You can make it much more safer and shittier with CG. All is CG now, so you can spare money and don't need professionnal stuntmens anymore. So the billions you make are only for the production team. YEAH !
This is a really cool film short. I'm afraid of heights, so watching this scene made me scared for him lol. He was super brave to do that. 👍
Celena Jones the recording was actually very interesting! They had a mattress below and the camera just high enough not to see it above the city!
@@slambotv1334 That's pretty interesting. Thanks for the info.
It's a clip from a full-length feature film.
@@wryanddry2266 Ok. That's what I meant to say, but thanks for letting me know.
Harold Lloyd's genius is impeccable. one of my favorites.
This is even more amazing when you realize that Lloyd was missing his thumb and first finger on one of his hands.
You know, I never knew that. I might have heard something about that on AMC, but I had forgotten.
@tomflynn1974 on this film only on the long camera shots of a person climbing the building. It's all HL on the close up work on the prop wall 20 feet high mounted on a platform near the roof edge. No safety barriers around the platform. Climbing with only one good hand. That he did it is still mind-blowing. On his next thrill picture 'Feet First" stunt men were used more often.
I was forced to believe Charlie was the king all my life!!i never knew this guy existed all my life!!this is the greatest king in movie history!!period!!
There are other good ones but Charlie is still King imo
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If I see this, I get humid hands. Splendidly. Thanks from Germany.
Harold Lloyd films are amazing, terrifying and real. Such good quality focus and grain of film.
He did it! The absolute mad man!
The 1, 300+ people who disliked this have no appreciation for masterpieces.
I'd only ever seen the part with the clock. Didn't know it was such a long and brilliant sequence. Thx for sharing.
Ingenious, great plot, acting, and music add on. The best was the historic view of L.A...buildings, and street cars.
Well, the guy did his own stunts so you know he's just a wee bit crazy. Gotta love HL.
Saw this as a child and it scared me to death. I never, ever forgot this scene. I am watching it now, 40 years later, and my hands are getting sweaty.
Oh !!, This is crazy, the actor, cinematographer and director are so brilliant in making this movie. Hats off to the actor.
Watched this in a film class in high school, still makes my palms sweat! Truly an amazing scene
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This is so riveting, it is beyond.
This scene is glorious but it scares me the fact that he did that in real life with out stunts
He was the stunt
It was just shot from perspective so the clock part was actually just 12 feet above a roof and wasn’t an actual building
Not to diminish his performance in this classic film, but he's never more than a few feet off a flat roof. The side of the building he is supposedly climbing is a set, mounted on the flat roof of a building, just out of view. When he climbs up a floor, filming actually shifts to another, slighty taller building also with a flat roof, and they move the wall set to the top of that. You can see this when the buildings and tram lines in the background change between floors. At 1:04, for example, we can see crossing tramlines and an advert for Stagg. At 1:50, when he is below the famous clock, these have disappeared. At 8:23, they have changed again.
How do you know...this was 💯 without stunts??
@@billb207 thanks for pointing that out!!
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. Though Lloyd certainly had help, his classic scene continues to make time stand still, figuratively and literally, for generations of movie fans.
No,No actually bill strother, who also played harold's pal,billed as limpy bill did most of the climbing here, (the long shots especially).harvey doubled mostly for harold seven years later in the pale sound remake. maybe he claimed he also climbed for hal in this classic film comedy of his is because there's any production stills that doesn't exist at all from this great silent film comedy.
Harvey climbed and doubled primarily for hal in the fun but inferior kind of, sound remake,feet first in 1930. he most likely had claimed to had climbed for hal in the great safety last! is because no production stills from this classic silent doesn't exist anymore.
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I remember watching these as a child, the magic and excitement is still amazing as an ; adult ; hillerious right up till the final scene. more more more!!!
wow that makes you about 90 something!
He could have watched it in 1990 and be 37 years old!
this is so old, yet it still amazes me...
Who is the actor
@@KHAN-xm5zl oh it’s not an actor! It’s someone doing it for real
@@misty1954 unbelievable.. anyhow you may be right.. but he is looking like Charles Chaplin
I smiled when a part of the famous clock face showed up on screen at 01:12. The image is that famous indeed. :))
This scene still gives me the shivers down my spine.
If you look closely, the higher up the building he gets, the background changes
The most petrifying stunt work I have ever seen!!! It doesn't get any more harrowing than this!!!
My heartbeat stops at Every moment in this video
I love the fact the guy is only about 12 feet up on a fascade lined up perfectly on a roof when he's on the clock.
More like 15 to 20. I have the Lloyd biography book which includes pics of how this was done. A prop wall on a platform built on a tall building rooftop. To get the proper camera angle the platform was near the rooftop edge with no safety barriers around it. Sure 15 feet below Harold were bed mattresses but if he fell sideways and not flat he bounces off the mattress and over the roof edge to his death.
Now I can see that they used hints of this on back to the Future
And that folks is why they say, "they don't make 'em like that anymore." Plus, dialogue would have killed this scene.
Adding to the danger is the fact that Harold Lloyd had lost the thumb and index finger of his right hand while posing for a publicity picture in August of 1919 with what he had been told was a perfectly safe prop.
They should remake this for its 100th anniversary, so we can introduce this to younger generations!
😂😂 aint no one looking to die. Unless it is Jackie chan or tom cruise
@@johnfisher1006 we got them green screens and cgi now!! :)
@@TediousMilkshake hah wont that be unfaithful to the original then
They'd butcher it.
Wow! Impressive. No green screen, no cgi, no safety net? People back then were brave. Climbing a building... Like A BOAS!!!
Juci Shockwave More like "A BAWS"
@ Sarah - when did green screening come into the movie business?
Spectacular! I adore the way movies were produced in the silent film era to the 1960s.
My palms got sweaty watching this! Love it!
Legends say that the guy is still busy in ditching the cop!
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Hey kids, want 11 1/2 minutes of anxiety? Here ya go!
you SOILED IT
These is nearly 100 years old and still gold
Thanks for sharing, this set my pulse racing.
my anxiety levels have NEVER been so high!!
mind blowing scene ...superb
It's sad that so many people don't know Harold Lloyd...
All this without the thumb and index fingers of the right hand. And he was right handed!
All fake also he was only a few inches off the ground
@@TonyDAnnunzio More like a couple meters off the ground. cdn.fstoppers.com/styles/med-16-9/s3/lead/2017/01/safety-last-sfx-behind-the-scenes.jpg And still it wasn't easy to do all the stuff he did in the movie, even with a full hand, let alone with two missing fingers.
OMA2k awesome work
That guy had balls for sure, amazing !!
this is as good as it gets.
Humor and danger, crazy combination.
+Selina Knightley My joke => "Love and Hate - what a beautifull combination!" Great Actor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fun to watch.
+The Odyssey 95 good man
More like humor and crazy, dangerous combination.
4:20 Among the endless grand stunts, he still had the time to slip in the stuck shoe bit. Amazing performer 😍
Harold Lloyd greatest stuntman of yesteryears..... No equal
even after being so old this scene kept me on the egde of the seat, my fingers crossed throughout....this is the true definition of thrill. Why don't they make more of such scene.....
Great effects. Crazy stunts. Love it
There is an even sweeter element to the ending. Lloyd and Mildred Davis got married not long after this movie. They would stay married until Mildred's death in 1969. So it almost feels like a real life happy ending. (Incidentally, this was one area where he had his great rivals, Chaplin, and Keaton beat. Keaton's first marriage cost him his entire fortune, his home, and his kids, and well, we all know the history of Chaplin's love life, three tries before he got it right.)
Thanks for the history, very interesting!
Great clip. Thanks for posting! More people need to know about the original American action hero.
I can't believe he did this stunt with out any safety precautions
love you forever, Harold dear.
Amazing
Best movie i seen this year (2019)
Hes got me on the edge of my seat
That old man joke " Get out of here! Dont you know the dog might fall?", what about...
We rarely see such beautiful camera angles....waw !😍
11 minutes of comedy gold!
The real question is, where was the camera.
Ghost11715
this piece of wall you see stands on a flat rooftop, and the camera stands on a wooden platform that films the street, and the prop wall with the actor hanging on, with a soft mattress underneath him
Would make total sense! Ingenious indeed. Keaton was a GM stuntman, and would seem, illusionist. Better then most A list action actors today. The Chase is an example. But he was not crazy. They could not hide harnesses with fx in 1923? Build around it. Thanks for the debunk!
damn that's clever, i totally believed it's actually a real high building wall
They used a drone.
Literally a masterpiece.
...enorme...un verdadero crack..
Absolutely incredible 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
How did this dude stay alive so long? I think it is safe to say he had THE most dangerous stunts ever recorded.
My hands are sweating by watching this
oh my god its really good and fantastic I never seen before in any movie
Great to see this after 50 Years!Chris Sibbald and Friends 23-11-2018
That's pure genius !
Old is Gold
Ghulam Rasool Can't spell gold without old
2017 I still watch this, ca s'est grave.
Brilliant trick photography.
Oh my God first time in my life I'm see this amazing
"And so away we go, burning our britches behind us. But we'll be back next time with some suitable scenes that everybody pants for."
What a great scene -- what a terrific natural comedian with great physical timing
I am speechless, its just hats off.
I remember the first time I saw this film. I was lucky enough to see it in the cinema a number of years back, and this is one of the few times in my life I've been sitting in a theatre, watching a film, and my hands literally start to sweat because it's so intense. Seeing this in a cinema was a whole other experience!
I don't know how you could have sat in the audience and watched this on the big screen without fainting.
it still puts me on edge!
Unbelievable. One of the most famous scenes in motion picture history!
"I'm Harold Lloyd and welcome to Jackass"
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Today I'm climbing a skyscraper.
This always gives me anxiety! But in a good way.
Amazing!!! I see why so many movies have this trope now
Firstly they are not staged. He actually did climb the building and what is more remarkable is he had lost his thumb and the first two fingers of a hand in an explosion What you see is his prosthetic thumb and fingers. One amazing guy
Sorry, it was staged. The far away shots were with a stuntman. The closeup shots were lloyd hanging from a fake clock on a building facade which was built on the roof of a completely different building across the street, at an angle to make it look real.
Get out of here don't you know the dog might fall.
+Mike Peterson That's the internet in a nutshell. "Forget about the man who's in a life-threatning situation! Is the animal ok?"
I liked the pit! Cool dog
In those days, everyone knew that was lunacy. Today, millions of people would say the dog owner was right. :/
itsnotaboutme Yup. That was joke in this movie and humans are such trash in the 21st century they’d care more about a dog than a fellow human being.
@@horaciosi The human chose to put their life on the line, simply for entertainment...The dog didn't.
Legendary!
Though this is now 100 years old, im freaking out watching this !
best ever. no words to say
Im a 17 yr old teen , surprisingly i found this very interesting
+Alexzander Garcia So have 117,948. Many of them teens like you. So no, not surprising what so ever.
um alrighty then, maybe its because I wanted to see him splat I guess.....
17 year old tenn
Alexzander Garcia I am 14 and I found this interesting too
ive seen this when i was 4-6 my parent loves silent comedy so they showed it to me
Fantastic!
I remember that character,dang i'm getting old.Love it!!!
Sandra Q. Do you remember him? are you 100 years old? you look astonishingly good!!. Sorry bad joke. You look very good anyway.
My favorite silent film was The Kid with Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan from 1921 but I really love the old street scenes of NYC in Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton films. Now those two guys had some balls. It's really a miracle they were not killed doing some of their stunts while making movies back then. I sure would love to go back in time to that era. And yes, my palms sweat profusely every time I watch this clip.
I love when the citizens look on when harold and buster are out on the streets doing their scenes. giving indication that these people are not extras just ordinary everyday people just watching their favorite stars for interest and sheer admiration.
Thank you dad for introducing me to this… rip💜
I can't imagine how intense this was when it first came out. Absolutely amazing!