Oral history interview with Harold Lloyd, 1959
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- Name
- Lloyd, Harold, 1893-1971 (Interviewee)
- Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
- Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Harold Lloyd, 1959
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Harold Lloyd, 1959
- Abstract
- 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 excer pts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"
- Collection Name
- Popular arts project
- Subjects
- Comedians--United States; Actors; Motion picture industry; Motion pictures--Production and direction; Sound motion pictures; Motion picture acting; Silent films; Lloyd, Harold, 1893-1971
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 76 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Film comedian, director
- Note
- Interviewed by Joan and Robert Franklin
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 11733933
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-x1m3-dy92
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.