Instrumentation
0.0.2(I=ssax+asax.II=asax+fl+picc).bcl(=tsax+bsax).0 -2.2(I=flhn).2.1 - perc(1/2): vib/chimes/xyl/glsp/marktree/bell tree/tgl/2 tpl.bl/wdbl/siz.cym/susp.cym/BD/tam-t/mcas/guiro/swanee whistle/ratchet/cyms/vibraslap/whip/flexatone/(3 timp) - drum kit -pno(=cel) - banjo(=gtr) - 6 vln.vlc.db
Availability
Full Score and parts for hire. Hire and Grand Rights administered by Faber Music on behalf of Euston Music
Programme Notes
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis. Bill Stroth
Directors: Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Production company: Hal Roach Studios USA, 1923
Film Print: 35mm, DigiBeta, DVD, Blu-Ray (Criterion version) and DCP B&W print available from Harold Lloyd Entertainment Inc. (Film Speed: 20-22 frames per second)
Harold Lloyd's search for a character that could capture the American public's imagination resulted in 'the Boy', a bespectacled, straw-hatted and aspiring young man typical of his generation. Safety Last is the classic thrill picture, inspired by the 'human fly' phenomenon of the time when men climbed sky-scrapers unaided as publicity stunts. Lloyd plays the Boy, who comes to the big city and wins his fortune and his girl by becoming a human fly. The orchestration of Davis's score is based on the line-up of the Paul Whiteman Band, and is inspired by the popular music of the Twenties. An Eastern Westerner has the same orchestration so that the two films can be run as a double-bill.