The Freshman (35mm)

(Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, US 1925, 77 min., 35mm)

In one of his supreme comic masterpieces, the great Harold Lloyd tries anything to be the most popular man on campus, including becoming a tackling dummy for the school football team. He gets a chance to impress his girl by helping the team win the big game in one of the most hilarious sequences in cinema history. Utilizing the standard frame of the time, most of the football sequences are shot looking down the field from each end zone, rather than from the sidelines as would become standard both in films and on television after the emergence of widescreen technology. This screening represents the public premiere of our 1925 Knabe piano.

Live piano accompaniment Dr. Philip Carli.