The 1920's were halcyon years for cinema comedy, and the inspired products of that period are among the silent screen's finest offerings
These films include Harold Lloyd's amusing masterpiece, "Safety Last!;" "The General" and "The Navigator," both starring Buster Keaton; and dozens of short films featuring the mismatched comic duo, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
There was certainly no melancholia in the films of Harold Lloyd, who may have lacked the depth of Chaplin and Keaton but who was every bit as funny
Lloyd was working as an extra on the Universal lot when he met Hal Roach, who subsequently produced a series of one-reelers starring Lloyd as a character named Lonesome Luke, a frank imitation of Chaplin's Little Tramp
Later Lloyd was to own character, that of a decent, optimistic, and eager young man who wore horn-rimmed glasses and always emerged triumphant from the incredible scrapes he got into
Sight gags were Lloyd's specialty, as "Safety Last," his noisy and disorderly funny film, was to prove Playing a department store clerk who, through a combination of circumstances, is forced into posing as a professional "human fly," Lloyd climbs up the side of a tall skyscraper as traffic whizzes below You will surely squealed with delight as Lloyd missed his footing and grabbed the hands of a huge clockonly to have the face of the clock open out, leaving Lloyd hanging in midair
There was certainly no melancholia in the films of Harold Lloyd, who may have lacked the depth of Chaplin and Keaton but who was every bit as funny
Lloyd was working as an extra on the Universal lot when he met Hal Roach, who subsequently produced a series of one-reelers starring Lloyd as a character named Lonesome Luke, a frank imitation of Chaplin's Little Tramp
Later Lloyd was to own character, that of a decent, optimistic, and eager young man who wore horn-rimmed glasses and always emerged triumphant from the incredible scrapes he got into
Sight gags were Lloyd's specialty, as "Safety Last," his noisy and disorderly funny film, was to prove Playing a department store clerk who, through a combination of circumstances, is forced into posing as a professional "human fly," Lloyd climbs up the side of a tall skyscraper as traffic whizzes below You will surely squealed with delight as Lloyd missed his footing and grabbed the hands of a huge clockonly to have the face of the clock open out, leaving Lloyd hanging in midair