Editing Harold Lloyd (section)

===Renewed interest===
[[Image:World of Comedy.jpg|thumb|upright|Movie poster for ''World of Comedy'', Lloyd's compilation of film clips from the silent and sound eras, 1962]]

Lloyd kept copyright control of most of his films and re-released them infrequently after his retirement.<ref name="har"/>

Lloyd did not grant cinematic re-releases because most theaters could not accommodate an organist to play music for his films, and Lloyd did not wish his work to be accompanied by a pianist: "I just don't like pictures played with pianos. We never intended them to be played with pianos." Similarly, his features never were shown on television as Lloyd's price was high: "I want $300,000 per picture for two showings. That's a high price, but if I don't get it, I'm not going to show it. They've come close to it, but they haven't come all the way up." As a consequence, his reputation and public recognition suffered in comparison with Chaplin and Keaton, whose work generally has been more widely distributed. Lloyd's film character was so intimately associated with the 1920s era that attempts at revivals in 1940s and 1950s were poorly received when audiences viewed the 1920s (and silent film in particular) as old-fashioned.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}

In the early 1960s, Lloyd produced two compilation films, ''[[Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy]]'' and ''[[The Funny Side of Life]]'', featuring scenes from his old comedies. The first film premiered at the 1962 [[Cannes Film Festival]], where Lloyd was fêted as a major rediscovery.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pawlak |first1=Debra Ann |title=Bringing Up Oscar |date=15 January 2011 |publisher=Pegasus Books |isbn=978-1-60598-137-6 |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bringing-Up-Oscar/Debra-Ann-Pawlak/9781605981376 |language=en}}</ref> In 1965 he was interviewed by the [[Social Security Administration]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Harold Lloyd - Interview (1965) | website=[[YouTube]] | date=March 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj9cpWrduV8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=8 May 1971 |title=Harold Lloyd - Famous Comedian and in 1950 was the Imperial Potentate of the Shrine of North America |url=http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/harold_lloyd_masonic_bio.htm |access-date=2 October 2011 |website=Phoenix Masonry}}</ref>

The film was well received by most critics and audiences as a reminder of Lloyd's creative output as the third (with Chaplin and Keaton) of the "Big Three" great [[silent comedy]] filmmakers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy / Funny Side of Life |url=http://theageofcomedy.com/hlworld.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425014925/http://theageofcomedy.com/hlworld.html |archivedate=25 April 2012 |access-date=2 October 2011 |website=The Age of Comedy}}</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jul/16/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries "Alexander Walker Outstanding and outspoken film critic and writer"], ''The Guardian'', 16 July 2003 .</ref>

The renewed interest in Lloyd helped restore his status among film historians. Throughout his later years, he screened his films for audiences at special charity and educational events, to great acclaim, and found a particularly receptive audience among college audiences: "Their whole response was tremendous because they didn't miss a gag; anything that was even a little subtle, they got it right away."{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}
[[File:Harold Lloyd Grave.JPG|thumb|upright|Lloyd's crypt in the Great Mausoleum, Forest Lawn Glendale]]

Following his death, and after extensive negotiations, most of his feature films were leased to [[Time-Life]] Films in 1974.<ref name="Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock">{{cite book |last1=Dardis |first1=Tom |title=Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock |date=1983 |publisher=Viking Press |isbn=978-0-670-45227-9 |page=306 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-WlZAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> As Tom Dardis confirms: "Time-Life prepared horrendously edited musical-sound-track versions of the silent films, which are intended to be shown on TV at sound speed [24 frames per second], and which represent everything that Harold feared would happen to his best films".<ref name="Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock"/> Time-Life released the films as half-hour television shows, with two clips per show. These were often near-complete versions of the early two-reelers, but also included extended sequences from features such as ''Safety Last!'' (terminating at the clock sequence) and ''Feet First'' (presented silent, but with [[Walter Scharf]]'s score from Lloyd's own 1960s re-release). Time-Life released several of the feature films more or less intact, also using some of Scharf's scores which had been commissioned by Lloyd. The Time-Life clips series included a narrator rather than [[intertitles]]. Various narrators were used internationally: the English-language series was narrated by [[Henry Corden]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Division |first1=Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound |title=3 Decades of Television: A Catalog of Television Programs Acquired by the Library of Congress, 1949-1979 |date=1989 |publisher=Library of Congress |isbn=978-0-8444-0544-5 |page=246 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wCpjRQ3TkWkC |language=en}}</ref>

The Time-Life series was frequently repeated by the BBC in the United Kingdom during the 1980s, and in 1990 the documentary ''Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius'' was produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, following two similar series based on Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.<ref>Documentary: ''Harold Lloyd — The Third Genius''.</ref> Composer [[Carl Davis]] wrote a new score for ''Safety Last!'' which he performed live during a showing of the film with the [[Royal Scottish National Orchestra]] to great acclaim in 1993.<ref>{{cite web |title=Faber Silents Catalogue 2016 |website=Issuu.com |date=January 22, 2016 |url=https://issuu.com/fm_fortissimo/docs/faber_silents_catalogue_2016 |access-date=March 12, 2019}}</ref>

The Brownlow and Gill documentary was shown as part of the PBS series ''American Masters'', and created a renewed interest in Lloyd's work in the United States, but the films were largely unavailable. In 2002, the Harold Lloyd Trust re-launched him with the publication of the book ''Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian'' by [[Jeffrey Vance]] and Suzanne Lloyd,<ref>{{cite news|last=Loos |first=Ted |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/21/books/books-in-brief-nonfiction-a-matter-of-attitude.html |title=Books in Brief – Nonfiction – A Matter of Attitude |work=The New York Times|date=July 21, 2002 |access-date=July 21, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-24-bk-turan24-story.html|title=Behind the Laughter|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=April 13, 2015|date=March 24, 2002}}</ref> and a series of feature films and short subjects called "''The Harold Lloyd Classic Comedies''" produced by Jeffrey Vance with executive producer Suzanne Lloyd and Harold Lloyd Entertainment. The new cable television and home video versions of Lloyd's great silent features and many shorts were remastered with new orchestral scores by [[Robert Israel (composer)|Robert Israel]]. These versions are frequently shown on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel. A DVD collection of these restored or remastered versions of his feature films and important short subjects was released by New Line Cinema in partnership with the Harold Lloyd Trust in 2005, along with theatrical screenings in the United States, Canada and Europe.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}

[[Criterion Collection]] has acquired the home video rights to the Lloyd library and has released ''Safety Last!'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/films/28446-safety-last|title=Safety Last!|work=The Criterion Collection|access-date=April 13, 2015}}</ref> The ''Freshman'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/films/28510-the-freshman|title=The Freshman|work=The Criterion Collection|access-date=April 13, 2015}}</ref> ''[[Speedy (film)|Speedy]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/films/28497-speedy|title=Speedy|website=The Criterion Collection|access-date=May 19, 2017}}</ref> and ''The Kid Brother''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/films/28499-the-kid-brother|title=The Kid Brother|work=The Criterion Collection|access-date=May 8, 2025}}</ref>

In the June 2006, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Silent Film Gala program book for ''Safety Last!'', film historian Jeffrey Vance stated that Robert A. Golden, Lloyd's assistant director, routinely doubled for Harold Lloyd between 1921 and 1927. According to Vance, Golden doubled Lloyd in the bit with Harold shimmy shaking off the building's ledge after a mouse crawls up his trousers.<ref>{{cite web|title="Safety Last!: Notes on the Making of the Film" : Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Silent Film Gala program book, June 3, 2006 revised and reprinted as "Safety Last!" San Francisco Silent Film Festival program book, July 18–21, 2013|url=http://www.silentfilm.org/archive/safety-last|website=Silentfilm.org|access-date=July 21, 2016}}</ref>