Safety Last

One of the top 3 silent-film comedians along with Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd will forever be associated with SAFETY LAST because of a single shot that is one of the most celebrated images in cinema: a bespectacled man hanging off the hands of a collapsing clock on the side of a skyscraper, high above teeming city streets. Ben Model, a resident silent- film accompanist at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), helps Schroon Lake’s Strand Theater mark the movie’s centennial by performing his own piano compositions to accompany SAFETY LAST—in the latest in a series of performances at the Strand that have become a crowd favorite at the Art Deco movie house.