American Museum of the Moving Image Screening Harold Lloyd’s High-Flying Claim to Fame From 1923, ‘Safety Last’ 

From the slimmest of means immortality is achieved: This is a statement that cuts two ways with a film starring Harold Lloyd, “Safety Last” (1923). The movie wasn’t the American comedian’s biggest box office hit — that would come two years later with “The Freshman” — but it is largely how Lloyd is remembered, even by those who can’t place the name or haven’t seen the film. The bright young man dangling from the hand of a clock situated toward the top of a skyscraper is an image pretty much lodged in our collective consciousness.