Showing posts with label Harold Lloyd gifs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harold Lloyd gifs. Show all posts
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Monday, October 6, 2014
More delicious moments from Why Worry
A great pratfall with obvious sexual connotations. Note that she doesn't get up for a long time. Though he tries to ignore it, she has a certain effect on him that has him reaching for his heart pills.
These two are such a great team, with a dynamic force between them that works perfectly. Jobyna Ralston combines sweetness with intelligence and fire. Harold has met his match.
He berates her for neglecting her duties, running around in boy's clothes when he should be looking after his health! The argument will soon escalate into something more.
Things are reaching the boiling point. . .
She's had it - had enough of his selfishness, his ridiculous imaginary ills, and she lets him have it. And he likes it.
Some nice stunt work here, which I am sure was NOT done by a double.
The thing about Why Worry is that beneath all that absurdity and comedy and charm, there's a cleverly hidden Lloydian message. This movie is all about a selfish, self-absorbed boy becoming a man. And how does this happen? LOVE! Love is always the motivation in every Harold Lloyd movie, for everything. By the end of the story he actually has a man's job and responsibilities, but when he finds out his wife (Jobyna, of course) has just had a baby, he leaps over the desk and begins to run like crazy to the hospital. Harold is telling us, without laying it on too thick, that it's possible to grow up without losing any of your natural exuberance.
A lesson he must have learned through experience.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
This Is Your Life, Harold Lloyd!
This isn't the best material to make gifs out of, but I thought I'd try a few.
Footage of the older Harold is rare. Someone finally found this TV broadcast from some time in the 1950s, Harold being celebrated on This Is Your Life. He looks a little uncomfortable, would probably rather not have the attention, but goes along with it graciously. I love the instant when he looks into the camera. Same old seducer.
His wife Mildred Davis still carries that aura of glam. But what I love is the sweet way they embrace. Harold is much more of a toucher than I thought he'd be and often touches people's faces affectionately. His hug is enfolding and warm. You can't fake things like that, it can't be done. Though they certainly had their problems, it sure looks like they loved each other. If you watch his right hand very carefully as they embrace, you'll see the damage from the accident which he somehow managed to hide in plain sight. No one expected it to be there, so it wasn't.
For all his sweetness and charm, there was a lot of shrewd businessman in Harold. One can imagine him at those Shriners conventions, where the women were there for the having. And he had them, not innocently of course, though one gets the impression he was good to them, liked them. That was the way of Hollywood then, and is it any different now?
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Monday, July 21, 2014
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Don't give your heart
You must know this: it's not too goddamn smart
To give your heart.
To let some boy just trifle, a-la-carte
It's not too smart.
If you want to go there, go there,
And if you want to stay here, stay here,
And if you want to just pop la balloon
With la railroad-spike -
Do what you like.
Stupid to throw so much of yourself away
Stupid to realize it's past that day
(Way past that day!)
But haven't we always been the railroad type?
Love is a gutting kind of a thing
Doesn't make bells and banjos ring
and in the end, who's gonna sing?
(Say, sing!)
When it almost works, it's such a shame,
And shame can feel much worse than pain
(and wedding rain)
When it almost works, the shock is deep
When it almost works, it shatters sleep
And pride and other things
The dream is stolen in the night
But you left it in the open, that wasn't too bright!
Not too bright.
The dream is stolen in the night
But you left it in the open, that wasn't too bright!
Not too bright.
When magic misfires too many times
and when all this stuff no longer rhymes:
Quelle horreur!
But it can't be worse than misfired art
And it can't be worse than knowing
You made this whole mess start -
You gave your heart.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
He loves me, he loves me not
A new book out is like a little tornado, and it sucks in everything in your life (for a while - tornado-time is now very short). This can be exhausting. Meantime, waiting for the miracle of sales, I need rest for a second. Where do I find it? In Harold gifs, of course. Last time I tried to make a gif, it didn't turn out with either of the programs I normally use. One of them went catawampus a long time ago and only offers about 1/4 of the options it used to have. Those tiny, virtually three-dimensional works of art are a thing of the past. I think.
So in digging around, which I still do for some reason, I occasionally come up with "something like this". Very sweet. I want to lie down now for about a thousand years.
Special Bonus gif: someone was clever enough to take the first gif and animate it. I couldn't do this to save my life, but I do thank whoever did it.
I promise, no more ads after I break 10,000.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Giphy is down!
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My giffinator is down. That means I can't gif, not now anyway. Could it be too heavily trafficked, might it have crashed? Who knows. I have all sorts of vintage Santa cartoons, you know the kind I mean, that I want to excerpt in gifs, but I can't. So I am left to trawl web sites, such as a bizarre collection called giphy. Most of these I already have in some form or another, except for the multitude of titled Safety Last ones (and I still haven't found all of those).
These I have seen, but they pair up nicely, expressing my feelings about this time of year. If only it were possible to die temporarily, which is perhaps what drugs and alcohol are supposed to do.
Friday, December 13, 2013
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