Reply With QuoteIIRC in the long version Harold is hanging off an enormous clock face by one of the hands as it bends outwards over the streets, it looks like hundreds of feet below. Watched a lot of that show as a youngster.
Powerful stuff, nostalgia.
IIRC in the long version Harold is hanging off an enormous clock face by one of the hands as it bends outwards over the streets, it looks like hundreds of feet below. Watched a lot of that show as a youngster.
Powerful stuff, nostalgia.
I believe he actually did the stunt too and never had a stunt doubleOriginally Posted by Passenger
It used to be on late afternoon or early evening when I was at school in the 80s....never missed an episode, the stunts on the clock were amazing.
When I was enjoying Harold Lloyd and the other silent movies greats on the BBC in the 1980s I recall my Dad reminiscing about his father taking him to Saturday Morning Pictures in the 1950s. Lloyd had already finished making films by then and I imagine that my grandfather felt nostalgic about the time that he had experienced them first time around.
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Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Yes, it's incredible how a few bars of music can transport us back in time.
Fairly sure it would then be this:
I loved Harold Lloyd - brilliant.
It's odd the stuff that sticks in your brain.
John Dunn was a wonderful BBC2 radio presenter who had the original Drivetime show from 5.00pm to 7.00pm.
He used to have a Mystery Voice competition where he'd play a small recording of someone speaking and contestants would phone in and try and suggest who it was. If no-one got the name correct, the prize money would go up each week.
The particular sound clip which reached the maximum of £200 (a lot of money in the 80s) and then became a postal entry competition was "My mother wanted me to become a mining engineer if I recall correctly". Only three people suggested the right answer and their names went into the BBC hat for one winner to be chosen.
The person's voice was Harold Lloyd.
Sent through the ether by diddling with radio waves
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