About

The Australian Cinémathèque presents a selected retrospective of recently restored prints of films featuring Harold Lloyd, a popular film comedian of early cinema. Lloyd drew his comedic humour from the everyday and created for himself a good-natured boy-next-door character, less quirky than the personas conceived by his contemporaries Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. In a smart suit or casual clothes and with his signature black-rimmed round eyeglasses, Lloyd's character resonated with 1920s audiences. The program includes silent films with live musical accompaniment on the Gallery's Wurlitzer Organ.

Live Musical Accompaniment

David Bailey
Brisbane based Australian musician David Bailey developed a deep fascination with early 20th Century music at a young age which led to studies in piano and in particular the world of ragtime. As a teenager Bailey stumbled on the world of the cinema organ and was captivated by the rare and vast tonal and dynamic abilities of these instruments. A transition to organ studies followed and a deep passion grew for the music of the 20's and 30's and inturn their relationship to the world of silent cinema. Today Bailey is immersed in this musical world and personalities such as Sophie Tucker, Billie Holiday and Stephane Grappelli as well as theatre organists Sidney Torch and George Wright.Bailey continues to perform in concert for many organ societies in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and New Zealand. Since the installation of the rare Wurlitzer style 260 organ in the Australian Cinémathèque in 2006 (originally housed in Brisbane's Regent Theatre) he has composed and performed new film scores for many of the silent cinema programs held at the Gallery of Modern Art. These programs include Buster Keaton (2007), Silent Clown: Max Linder and Charlie Chaplin (2008), German Expressionism: Out of the Shadows and Beyond (2008), Hollywood on the Hudson (2009), Charles and Elsa Chauvel (2009) and Extravagant Cinema: From Cabiria to the Inferno (2010).

List of Works

• Ask Father 1919 | Director: Hal Roach
• Billy Blazes Esq 1919 | Director: Hal Roach
• From Hand to Mouth 1919 | Directors: Hal Roach, Alfred J Goulding
• Get Out and Get Under 1920 | Director: Hal Roach
• High and Dizzy 1920 | Director: Hal Roach
• Haunted Spooks 1920 | Directors: Hal Roach, Alfred J Goulding
• An Eastern Westerner 1920 | Director: Hal Roach
• Never Weaken 1921 | Director: Fred C Newmeyer
• I Do 1921 | Director: Hal Roach
• A Sailor-Made Man 1921 | Director: Fred C Newmeyer
• Grandma's Boy 1922 | Director: Fred C Newmeyer
• Dr Jack 1922 | Director: Fred C Newmeyer
• Safety Last! 1923 | Directors: Sam Taylor, Fred C Newmeyer
• Why Worry? 1923 | Directors: Sam Taylor, Fred C Newmeyer
• Girl Shy 1924 | Directors: Sam Taylor, Fred C Newmeyer
• Hot Water 1924 | Directors: Sam Taylor, Fred C Newmeyer
• The Freshman 1925 | Directors: Sam Taylor, Fred C Newmeyer
• For Heaven's Sake 1926 | Director: Sam Taylor
• The Kid Brother 1927 | Directors: Ted Wilde, Ja Howe
• Speedy 1928 | Director: Ted Wilde
• Welcome Danger 1929 | Director: Clyde Bruckman
• Feet First 1930 | Director: Clyde Bruckman
• Movie Crazy 1932 | Director: Clyde Bruckman
• The Cat's-Paw 1934 | Director: Sam Taylor
• The Milky Way 1936 | Director: Leo McCarey