Topic: Long lost Harold Lloyd short recovered

[falsealarms]

Great news:

Terrific news for silent film fans! A long lost Harold Lloyd short, “Luke’s Double” (1916), has been recovered by the Harold Lloyd Estate and deposited at the UCLA Film & Television Archive for eventual preservation.

The short comedy, produced by Hal Roach’s Rolin Film Company for Pathé, features Harold as his earlier, more Chaplin-esque “Lonesome Luke” character before he became an icon worldwide as the bespectacled go-getter we remember today.

The 28mm print (a film format introduced by Pathé in 1912) was originally gifted to Harold Lloyd by the George Eastman Museum in the mid-1960s. The print disappeared in the subsequent decades, but Robert Simonton recently tracked down the film and Harold’s granddaughter, Suzanne Lloyd (pictured here), brought it to the Archive to join the rest of the Harold Lloyd Collection. 🎞

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[metaldams]

Good news!  Hope it shows up either on a physical release or streaming/YouTube.