Trying to identify a silent

herbertfilby · Post by **herbertfilby** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:13 pm

Ok, I remember back in 1995 or 1996 I was watching a documentary about silent films, and they had a clip where they were talking about those elevators used to film someone going up and down vertically (like Buster Keaton going up and down stairs in The Cameraman)...

So the clip I am trying to identify was a young man waving goodbye to a girl, and as she walked off into the distance, he climbed a tree and kept saying goodbye. She walked further and the camera followed him up the tree and he keeps waving, and so on. That's about all I can remember.

I thought it was Harold Lloyd, but a few years ago I went though most if not all of his shorts and didn't spot the clip in question... Anyone have any ideas?

CoffeeDan · Post by **CoffeeDan** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:21 pm

That's Harold Lloyd in THE KID BROTHER (1927).

Post by **silentfilm** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:05 pm

It's definitely Harold Lloyd's The Kid Brother, one of his greatest films.

Brooksie · Post by **Brooksie** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:14 pm

There is a picture of the tree scene itself on the TCM website - http://fan.tcm.com/_Harold-Lloyd-THE-KI ... 66470.html.

From memory, this sequence was also featured in the Harold Lloyd episode of Paul Merton's `Silent Clowns' series.

herbertfilby · Post by **herbertfilby** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 4:58 am

THANK YOU ALL! Haha, that's been bugging me for years

I'm glad I know my silent comedians enough that I at least got the actor right.

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