Safety Last!

Trivia: Harold Lloyd was missing two fingers from when a prop went off that he was holding from a previous film a few years earlier on his right hand. He wore a prosthetic glove. If you look close enough, the differences in his hands, especially hanging from the infamous clock scene.

ckbyers

Trivia: The scenes of Harold Lloyd hanging from the hands of a skyscraper clock were filmed on a facade erected on the roof of the L.L. Burns Building at 908 South Broadway in Los Angeles.

Steven Lee

Other mistake: As Harold begins to scale the DeVore Department Store building in Los Angeles, the intersection shown in the background is 10th Street and Broadway. In later scenes, it is 9th Street and Broadway. In the final scenes, it is 6th Street and Spring Street.

Steven Lee

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