I never realised he did two films around skyscraper climbing; I only knew of the (probably more) famous one, which I learn was called "Safety Last!" and came out in 1923. It's a testament to his tenacity and professionalism that he shot that just over four years after the bomb incident, actually.
The climbing itself was done for real, inasmuch as he climbed the front of a building hundreds of stories above ground level. As the above link recounts:
The climbing itself was done for real, inasmuch as he climbed the front of a building hundreds of stories above ground level. As the above link recounts:
Quote:“Safety Last!” was the story of an industrious fellow who climbed a skyscraper to win his girl. It’s the ultimate thrill comedy. Harold performed the hair-raising comedic stunt all by himself with only one complete hand. There were no fake backgrounds or computer graphics back in 1923. Strategic camera angles created the dizzy drops. At no time in filming could Harold have fallen more than three stories, but as Harold liked to remind his critics, “Who wants to fall three stories onto a mattress?”
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
