Hello, my name is Justin the Kluen, here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we're talking about the third genius.

Yes, of course, that's Harold Lloyd.

The guy dangling from a clock tower?

Yes, the guy that many people have seen his photo and perhaps have never seen his films.

And there's a reason for that.

Specifically because Harold Lloyd was a man that liked to control his art.

And by that, he wouldn't let them be released to television.

And because he didn't let them be released to television, unlike people like Chaplin or Buster

Keaton, whose movies and shorts weren't syndications endlessly to the point that a lot of

them went to public domain, Harold Lloyd's films and shorts were just never shown.

And in fact, I believe most people saw his films for the first time in the mid-2000s

when they came out on a DVD box set released

by New Line of all companies.

When Harold Lloyd passed away in 1971, his family wasted no time to sell his films

and shorts to a cable network who recut them into a TV show-like format and got rid of

the intertitles, showed them at 24 frames per second, which

they're not supposed to be shown at.

And then the narrator over the short would say stuff like, uh-oh, Harold's in trouble now.

I just want to say something to that point before we get into Harold Lloyd.

It's so crazy to think that in the 50s and 60s, there was this vogue for compilation films of like the greatest

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