Ha Ha! Never seen this one. Reminds me alot of Chaplin but Lloyd is so talented even here as he is only 4 or 5 years into his film career. Amazing. The early stages of his famous "glasses" or "boy" character. He deserves his place next to Chaplin & Keaton for sure.
BBC 2 showed a series of short films in Janury 1980 at 5:40pm, showing clips of his silent films with naration from a voice over describing the action. I used to watch regularly.
I saw this as a film a couple of months ago and it's much better than this clip, longer with more elaborate gags. I think it's one of Lloyd's best early films.
The chasing his hat scene is sad because Harold is forgotten by many people or is unknown and then someone like Johnny Depp copies him and gets the credit! GGGRRR!
+Freakazette95 I know, and i never seen any of his great peers(chaplin,keaton,arbuckle and even langdon)ever performed this bit.and i'd seen many of their early shorts.
God he was so cute. Saw a lot of stuff that seemed very Chaplin-esque, but as someone else said, and I agree, it's not really stealing from each other, the gags have been around forever. The scene where he's flirting with the lady, just the cutest expression he has there!
IMDB lists this as June Havok's (Gypsy Rose Lee's sister) first film (she has credit as "Child (as June Hovick)". Is that her, dressed as a boy, who bends down to pick up whatever's on the ground and walks off with the piano on her back? I don't see any other children in the film. June would have been about 6 year old in 1918.
