In “The Freshman,” Harold Lloyd is a Wanna-Be College Football Player

The four-eyed comic took advantage of the college football craze to make this, one of his most beloved films.

by Rich Watson 

In silent film comedy, three names tower above all others in Hollywood: Chaplin, Keaton, and today’s subject, Harold Lloyd. His spry, earnest screen persona carried him through much of the silent era and well into the sound one, for fifty years.

One of his biggest hits, the 1925 film The Freshman, put him on a college campus as an aspiring football player.

#popculture27: “Sunrise” and the Rise of German Expressionism in Film

This Hollywood silent film was the product of a unique cinematic movement in Germany.

by Rich Watson 

The early decades of film saw it developed in different ways in different countries. 

In post-World War One Germany, the unusual style developed there led to an influential movement. It led to some of the medium’s greatest early films, such as the 1927 drama Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.