it's also a fantastic example of great location, careful camera work and excellent cuts
he's only a few feet above lots of mattresses, yet almost everyone believes he did the stunt with nothing below him and the street
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HappyToast Groat froth,
Sun 8 Dec 2013, 19:41,
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Harold Lloyd on tv
Do you remember the version with the added voice over, with a high yackety-yacket-jack American accented man speaking over the pratfalls? That was the one I saw first, and I think I preferred it.
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normix,
Sun 8 Dec 2013, 23:47,
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Yep!
Childhood memories :) Those shows introduced me to the man. I ended up preferring the full movies when there was a Harold Lloyd season on BBC2 one Christmas, but I still like the music of the old yackety yak show :)
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Ysol ab abl blap,
Mon 9 Dec 2013, 8:12,
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