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SWIFF LIVE: SAFETY LAST!
Wed
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Wed 26 Apr 6:15 PM
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Jetty Memorial Theatre
100 Percent
Allocated Seating
67 Mins | Fred C. Newmeyer
April
An icon reimagined.
Comedy legend Harold Lloyd’s slapstick masterpiece, Safety Last!, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2023, presented at SWIFF with a live-on-stage soundtrack led by Coffs Harbour Regional Conservatorium Director, Pat Brearley.
Comic genius Harold Lloyd, often mentioned in the same breath as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, was an innovator of cinematic techniques, death-defying stunts, sharp social commentary, and laugh-out-loud comedy.
Starring in this hilarious romantic comedy as regular country lad, ‘The Boy’, Lloyd plays an upstart fellow that moves to New York City to make some cash to support his loving girlfriend (Mildred Davis), but soon discovers that making it in the Big Apple is harder than it looks. When he hears a store manager will pay $1000 to anyone who can draw people to his store, he convinces his friend, the “human fly” (Bill Strother) to climb the building and split the profit with him. But when his friend gets in trouble with the law, ‘The Boy’ must complete the crazy stunt on his own. What ensues results in one of the most iconic images in the history of cinema — Lloyd dangling precariously from the hands of a giant skyscraper clock!
This all-ages live performance, exclusive to SWIFF, is a collaboration between the Screenwave International Film Festival and the Coffs Harbour Regional Conservatorium.
Please allow 90mins for this session.
Note, SWIFF Live events cannot be redeemed from Passes.
Comedy legend Harold Lloyd’s slapstick masterpiece, Safety Last!, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2023, presented at SWIFF with a live-on-stage soundtrack led by Coffs Harbour Regional Conservatorium Director, Pat Brearley.
Comic genius Harold Lloyd, often mentioned in the same breath as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, was an innovator of cinematic techniques, death-defying stunts, sharp social commentary, and laugh-out-loud comedy.
Starring in this hilarious romantic comedy as regular country lad, ‘The Boy’, Lloyd plays an upstart fellow that moves to New York City to make some cash to support his loving girlfriend (Mildred Davis), but soon discovers that making it in the Big Apple is harder than it looks. When he hears a store manager will pay $1000 to anyone who can draw people to his store, he convinces his friend, the “human fly” (Bill Strother) to climb the building and split the profit with him. But when his friend gets in trouble with the law, ‘The Boy’ must complete the crazy stunt on his own. What ensues results in one of the most iconic images in the history of cinema — Lloyd dangling precariously from the hands of a giant skyscraper clock!
This all-ages live performance, exclusive to SWIFF, is a collaboration between the Screenwave International Film Festival and the Coffs Harbour Regional Conservatorium.
Please allow 90mins for this session.
Note, SWIFF Live events cannot be redeemed from Passes.
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