Hang on - how Harold Lloyd made Safety Last! score by John Bengtson

Step by step, see how #HaroldLloyd filmed Safety Last! atop increasingly taller buildings, a single scene filmed atop three different buildings, also filming near USC, MacArthur Park, and at the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley in Hollywood. Read a dozen different stories about the film here silentlocation...
Musical score - Rollercoaster Rag by John Bengtson © 1975 - MuseScore link. Believe it or not, I wrote this rag when I was 18 and self-taught. I still can’t play that well, but created a MuseScore file to play it. Here's a video of the score • Rollercoaster Rag by J...
Here's the sheet music musescore.com/...
Criterion's Safety Last! Blu-ray is amazing, so clear and beautiful www.criterion....
Criterion’s The Perfect Timing of Safety Last! features Craig Barron’s Safety Last! simulation of Harold’s clock scene. • The Perfect Timing of ...
Here's a self-guided walking tour of the downtown locations appearing in Safety Last!, Never Weaken, and Feet First silentlocation...
In all Lloyd employed 17 downtown buildings during his “thrill” comedies - here’s a PDF list of these buildings. silentlocation...
My book Silent Visions shows how Harold filmed each of his five stunt-climbing comedies within the downtown Los Angeles Historic Core amzn.to/3WLxMuj
HAROLD LLOYD images and the names of Mr. Lloyd’s films are all trademarks and/or service marks of Harold Lloyd Entertainment Inc. Images and movie frame images reproduced courtesy of The Harold Lloyd Trust and Harold Lloyd Entertainment Inc.
Special thanks to Marc Wanamaker - Bison Archives www.bisonarchi... and to Richard Simonton
Read all about Harold’s other movies at my blog silentlocation...

[@kali3665]

This was so cool. It always amazed me that Harold was able to do all of his stunts without a complete hand. Thank you for posting!

[@JLNeis]

Irregardless of how it was done Harold Lloyd was truly the greatest and deserved all the money he made.

[@MadMomma-kj9ks]

The most amazing 8 minutes on RUclips!

[@EvilscooterKitty]

Great job, as always, John! Thank you!

[@vidhushekhar17]

Thank you. I was wondering.
Good that I found your channel and subscribed.
You have obviously done a lot of research to satify our curiosity. GREAT JOB!!
Lots of love from India.🥰

[@zombikombi59]

Brilliant, thank you! Ive just come back from a 100th anniversary showing at my local cinema, and it's fascinating to see how these edge of your seat stunts were done. Also, I'm very pleased to see so many old buildings remain.

[@Flopsaurus]

Really, really impressive how you pieced all this together

[@garyreider6213]

Excellent video 🎉🎉 so glad I found this channel! Please keep up the great work!

[@thecrazycrossstitchlady]

As a Keaton fan and a silent movies fan in general, I greatly appreciate the time and effort that you put into this research and making these videos. I have your book and am excited to begin looking at it. Thank you!

[@StrikesnGutters2]

Incredible work, John. Thanks for this!

[@kevinpshan]

Thanks so much for this. Informative and enjoyable.

[@mikul_Robins]

Facinating

[@katwells6278]

I just finished watching Safety Last on TMC and I wondered how it was filmed and if Harold actually climbed the building
I have to watch your presentation again because I’m still not sure how it was filmed