From 1962, we have an interview on a CBS morning show with the great silent comic and climber-of-buildings, Harold Lloyd. It's in three parts that should play one after another (with minimal overlaps) in the player I've embedded below. The whole thing runs a little under 20 minutes and that includes some commercials which you may also enjoy.
You will note that throughout the chat, Mr. Lloyd tries to keep his right hand out of sight. Few of his fans ever knew that he was missing the thumb and forefinger of his right hand, the result of a prop bomb that detonated when he was holding it in a 1919 photo session. He kept the injury a secret — it was not mentioned in his 1928 autobiography — and appeared in films wearing a glove with prosthetic fingers. (He was right-handed, which makes many of his physical on-screen feats all the more amazing.) Eventually, the glove deteriorated and he never got around to getting another one made…so when he made public appearances later in life, he artfully kept the hand out of sight. The one time I met him, he had it in his pocket the entire time and shook with his left.
During the sixties, it is said he was frustrated that his name and body of work were not as revered as were that of Chaplin or Keaton or several others. Part of that may simply have been because he owned his best films and for a long time, they were not shown anywhere. He tried to rectify that by issuing two compilations, the first of which he's plugging in this clip, but he was reportedly disappointed with the reception. I always found his movies quite watchable and even funny though I somehow didn't love him the way I loved Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, the best of Chaplin and several others. So often in his movies, he isn't funny; the script is. Still, he deserves to be remembered as more than that guy hanging off the clock…
