You gotta respectably throw Fatty Arbuckle on that list. Hollywood blackballed poor Fatty after his trial & was always looked at as a Murderer & a Sexual Predator. He wasn't guilty of that girls murder.

comedian trio :)))

Unfortunately, Chaplin gets all the press with his post stamp moustache shtick but I actually enjoy Keaton and Lloyd more...Chaplin is boring by comparison.

no love for fatty arbuckle? lighting a cig off of a moving train over his should to than be smoothly pulled onto it was amazing. i working on the rail with freight trains and being he was about 250 to 300 lbs is nothing short of amazing

Agree

Bruh,if they're talking about 1917, Than 100 years already have been gone.😶 OBVIOUSLY MAN,USE YOUR BRAIN, 1917 - 2022 = 105 years,so It's 105 Years Old footage,which is hard as hell to believe. How they recorded it.😶😎👍

@@Diplomatofficial7 some of the footage is dated 1928. That's why I said almost 100 years old.

Yes I did well. 😉

I studied this in university, I'm impressed that I found that as fun as it was well-executed, almost 100 years but still good as fuck

stunts yes but in trick photography style, to appear he was up a tall buildingm cleverly done for the year, puts todays stunts to shame really.

Lloyd was great but Stuntman Harvey Perry did a lot of the work in Safety Last! although, of course, he was never credited. He deserves recognition too.

@@ieatgremlins Who says so? Every HL expert I've read says all the close-ups in Safety Last are by Harold. Use your eyes. On the long camera shots of the building climb it was Bill Strother who was a "human fly" in real life and the supporting character actor buddy in the film. Perry MADE THE CLAIM in the 1980's Brit documentary after Harold was dead and couldn't contradict him. Perry also praised Buster Keaton in that documentary and was silent on Lloyd, strongly suggesting some kind of dislike of Harold Lloyd. He's mistaken and that's polite for lying. Perry did work on "Feet First" a Lloyd sound film.

Gostava muito de assistir filmes dele, ria até não aguentar

I loved them too ! The song was hurray for Harold Lloyd, hanging from the clock scared me

Common sight here in Finland currently. Roads being in so bad condition, you need proper 4x4 to drive around town on tarmac roads AND fuel being so expensive, people drive way less 😅

REEEEEEEEEEEEEE DESTROY ALL CARS AND CAR DEPENDANT INFRASTRUCTURE

Yes, the horse 💩 looks great 👍. Brown landmines.

Los Angeles was beautiful then. But so was the US. Cars and suburbs have turned America into a hellscape.

and now?

If there was a baby, the poor little one would have been traumatised

In both Haunted Spooks and Never Weaken his character's motive for suicide was because he got jilted by a girl. However in Never Weaken it was a misunderstanding. When he saw Mildred in the arms of another man he assumed that she was dumping him for the other man. It turned out that the other man was her brother and he was just ordained a clergyman.

Wasn't he also afraid of heights? his commitment was impressive.

Whats a script?

Well they did not have modern process but they had "undercrank" on the hand cranked cameras. Meaning they slowed down the train to a low speed so HL or a stunt man could easily run across the roof of the coaches when filming but on playback the speed is double or triple fast. Risky but not as dangerous as it looks on playback at higher frames per second.

@@dave4882 A script is usually a paper or a note that plans the movie's plot and flow, You can write down dialog, action, movement, the angle, basically a note that reminds the director and the people the flow of the movie.

@@TealKuruma buster Keaton once said they didnt really follow a script, they just did what was funny. If they didnt think the shot was funny, it was dropped and they did something else.

The entire script for Douglas Fairbanks' 1922 "Robin Hood" was written on the back of an envelope.

He did get hurt at one point in his life. A stunt gone wrong blew part of his right hand off. He ended up having some kind of prosthesis that covered it. In the movies, he would always make sure to show less of that hand as possible. You can see it perfectly in the stunt where he's holding unto the clock hands. It looks like a rubber glove/hand.

He did these stunts after 1919 with only 8 fingers and a rubbery looking prosthetic glove covered in makeup on his damaged right hand. In 1919 during a publicity photo shoot he picked up a prop bomb which turned out to be a real explosive which took off his right thumb and index finger and the tendons in his right palm. How he did stunts after that is just mind-bending.

And only 8 fingers after losing two in a photoshoot gone wrong due to mistaking a real bomb for a prop.

Oh very sexy 😉 I've had... Dreams lol

Handsome and funny. Definitely a Prince Charming for me 🤴❤️👸😻👍

Definitely.

I always remember my sister saying WOW he's good looking.

@@jahno7154 yes he was very handsome . That is part of the reason for the glasses which became his trademark. Hal Roach who owned the studio said he was too good looking to be funny.

@@ladywalker8200 Wait he wore glasses to make him less attractive so he could look more like a fun character to get more laughs ?

@@jahno7154 yes that's right but it didn't seem to work that well as he was still good looking in them. He didn't need glasses until he was middle aged and he actually wore empty frames on set. He looked like a different guy without them and looked like a leading man film star. He liked it when people didn't recognise him off set and could go about incognito.

​@@ladywalker8200 I actually thought Lloyd looked better looking with the glasses, but very interesting thanks for the info I loved Harold Lloyd. Charlie Chaplin I was very disappointed with he is supposed to be the greatest of the silent movie comedians but not for me and Buster Keaton i don't remember him being on our tv screens here in the UK.

tom cruise sucks

I’d reserve that title for Buster Keaton.

@@GeertDelmulle But Tom Cruise is nothing, really. Lloyd was brilliant, Cruise is not.

Hmmm apa kah pasukan bang winda?

@@anggareksa3605 harold llody itu artis amerika terkenal banget kayak buster keaton dan charlie chaplin

@@anggareksa3605 pelawak film bisu amerika serikat ada beberapa gak cuman charlie chaplin dan buster keaton ada roscoe arbuckle, lary semon, dan gloria swanson

@@anggareksa3605 itu pemeran film bisu as mentornya laurel and hardy

Omg, Harold is so cute

I think anyone from the 20s would faint if they saw a modern big budget movie.

Finding music to use on KZfaq with these videos is kind of tricky. My original approach was to use a bunch of vintage 1920s jazz/ragtime recordings I downloaded from archive.org, but even those were getting flagged for copyright, despite some of them being almost 100 years old. I tried using KZfaq's free music library for a bit, but suitable options there were a bit slim, so I moved on to testing out Epidemic sound as a source of legally licensed music. I tried out quite a few options, and this artist was honestly the one I thought was the best fit for what I was going for. That first song has a ratio of 16K likes to 160 dislikes on its main KZfaq video, so I figured it was generally well received by people. Just out of curiosity, what kind of music would you use for a video like this? I've been kind of experiment with different approaches, so I'd be open to suggestions.

Personally I thought the music was fine... the jazzy sound is vaguely 1920s but with a modern beat

@@donmchoull I also thought your choice of music worked well. Besides, it's really not the focus here. Cheers, loved the video.

@@donmchoull The music was an excellent choice.

@@donmchoull Music choice was brilliant imo, and the clicks show. Can't hit everyone's taste, one will appeal to a younger, more modern audience (like this one did), and others might have had more appeal to an older audience.

Thank you. The troll who showed up to throw shade on HL should read your comment.

@will kirby Yes, a prosthetic glove with two false fingers stitched together and tight fitting over what remained of his hand. When filming they put makeup over the prosthetic hand to make it look lifelike. You can see the prosthetic glove in action starting with An Eastern Westerner, and the last half of Haunted Spooks.

Apparently they "tested" the mattress that was supposed to help Lloyd break his fall (if he fell) in Safety Last and the item they used bounced off the mattress and onto the ground. So it was still a dangerous stunt even if he is only a couple of stories high.

@@marilynsobel7414 similar situation with Laurel and Hardy filming their own “thrill” picture Liberty. Stan didn’t trust the mattress and Ollie tried to reassure him it was safe by falling on it. Needless to say, it was not safe.

@@deadpan80 I didn't know that! Thanks for the info.

That's exactly what i thought. Chaplin was overrated imo

I agree. Buster Keaton was definitely #1.

Those moustaches don’t lie.

While Chaplin did not do dangerous stunts, once you get past his earliest slapstick shorts, you get story lines and pathos and a class political angle. Some ingenious comedy too, even if my admiration begins and ends with the screen Chaplin and not the off-screen man (Read his biography and get one NOT from a fanboy or fangirl--not a warm and fuzzy dude and best called "difficult"). But he did create some memorable films with an edge about the alleged unfairness of society, factories, rich people, and others he skewered. Lloyd and Keaton were mostly non-political and went for laughs or thrills.

Tom cruise is better !!!

Oui. Moi aussi. Salut

Nobody- and I mean NOBODY- is allowed to do these stunts because of all the health and safety regulations!

@@Thomas828 And for good reason!!

Indeed.

Harold Lloyd faked most of his stunts. He used a stunt double and optical illusions.

@@ryderthereactor Of course he did. Only idiots in tiktok do that kind of things.

Yup agreed.

HL did fall off that fire truck at 0:30, split open his forehead (12 stitches) and pass out. His crew thought he had a skull fracture but luckily not. The accident was cut from the film and a stunt man did the rest of the ride. Documented in a late in life interview of Harold and also in studio notes from the film "Girl Shy" documented in a biography of HL. (author: Annette D'Agostino Lloyd). On the iconic clock scene from "Safety Last" there is a documentary on YT showing how it was done. He was not free-climbing a 12 story building.

Hollywood must have been really something then.

Before we had Jackie, we had buster Keaton, Harold lyodd.

Harold Lloyd faked most of his stunts. He used a stunt double and optical illusions

A great deal of them used forced perspective, but to say he didn't do any of his own stunts is simply not true. Harold Lloyd broke his neck doing stunts.

@@MrKruger88 he was quite athletic as well

@@MrKruger88 That was Buster Keaton unless Lloyd did as well.

@@PoutinePete That was BK, but Harold In the chase to the wedding sequence in "Girl Shy" did actually hang from the power pole of a streetcar in motion, did fall off that fire engine going 35 mph when a metal piece on the unspooling fire hose hit him square in the head and sustained a concussion and stitches. He did climb two stories up a building in an early short "Ask Father". The camera doesn't lie it's him. So all these punks on here with their trolling and it's all "fake" are just that. Uninformed punks. Just because he used perspective and a 15 foot tall prop wall in "Safety Last" takes nothing from his courage. He was using a platform on a tall buildings rooftop, placed near the roof edge, in downtown LA, filming only during mid-day heat (to avoid shadows on the street below) and with one good hand hanging for multiple minutes (until the director yelled "cut") from a clock hand. No safety railings on the platform. BK and HL took risks no actor or studio would allow or need now with CGI. We will never see their likes again.