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NEWS: FRI NIGHT VID: Safety Last!

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UKC News 20 May 2016

We all have that one friend who can just keep hanging on and will manage not to fall off no matter what you throw at them. Tonight's video is from 1923 and is an excerpt from stuntman Harold Lloyd's film Safety Last! Ok, it's not strictly 'climbing,' but we were impressed by the number of recognisable moves he managed to pull-off...

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Name Changed 34 20 May 2016

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What a man double knees on the mantelshelves and heel hooks on the overhang class

Trevers 20 May 2016

In reply to Name Changed 34:

What's he done on grit!?

FactorXXX 20 May 2016

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There's bold and then there's bold!

alan moore 20 May 2016

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He's magic. Remember watching all his shows when they were aired at Tea time on BBC 2. Must have been the late 70's.

gethin_allen 20 May 2016

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4:40 in, I know that feeling when you reach the top to find a horrible slopey topout.

Dino Dave 20 May 2016

In reply to gethin_allen:

I was about to say... It reminded me of the top of The Right Unconquerable (HVS 5a)!

mwr72 20 May 2016

In reply to alan moore:

I also remember that, it was on at 6 after Take Hart on BBC1 on Fridays

Derek Ryden 20 May 2016

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Pretty much the most realistic climbing I've seen in a movie. Nearly 100 years later, and Hollywood still never gets it right - Sylvester Stallone eat your heart out.

Michael Gordon 21 May 2016

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this guy is briliiant!

Matt Vigg 21 May 2016

In reply to alan moore:

Remember watching them as a kid as well, absolutely brilliant/mental. Jackie Chan is another one to look up, not so much climbing but crazy stunts he did himself.

DerwentDiluted 21 May 2016

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I love this, and like a lot of you remember it fondly from his films being shown on TV in the distant past.
Brilliant stuff, even though you know the height is illusion.

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Michael Gordon 21 May 2016

In reply to DerwentDiluted:

> even though you know the height is illusion.

ah right, I wasn't sure how they did this

DerwentDiluted 21 May 2016

In reply to Michael Gordon:

They built a set for the clock scene on the roof of a tall building, by using an oblique camera angle they made it look way up. That said, the initial part of the scene shows him going up some 50 ft and that was for real.