Silent film "Safety Last!" to be screened October 10, 2014

Live musical accompaniment provided by Mike Schiffer

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Still from 1923 silent film "Safety Last!" starring Harold Lloyd

ALBANY, NY (09/25/2014)(readMedia)-- SAFETY LAST! (United States, 1923, 73 minutes, b/w, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, silent with live musical accompaniment by Mike Schiffer) will be shown on Friday, October 10, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute as part of its Classic Film Series, the screening is free and open to the public.

One of the iconic comedies of the silent era, SAFETY LAST! features slapstick genius Harold Lloyd as a young go-getter from a small American town who moves to the "big city" in order to make something of himself, but winds up in all sorts of trouble instead. The Chicago Reader's Dave Kehr praised the sequence in which Lloyd climbs a skyscraper and dangles from its clockface as "the most brilliantly sustained comic climax in film history."

For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.

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