Oral history interview with Harold Lloyd, 1959

Biographical Note

Film comedian, director

Scope and Contents

Introduction to film; reminiscences of early career: Hal Roach, Mack Sennett; creation of Lonesome Luke, use of horn-rimmed glasses as trademark; discussion of films, "Grandma's Voice," filming of "Safety Last"; conversion to sound, progress in film, making of his first sound film, silent film theory; "Mad Wednesday," and Preston Sturges. Audio is comprised of the interview and the narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Actors--Interviews.
• Comedians--United States--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Lloyd, Harold, 1893-1971--Interviews.
• Motion picture acting.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Silent films.
• Sound motion pictures.