Flatpack Festival
Film for all the senses

Safety Last!

Thursday 21st March, 2013

Great Western Arcade | 20:00 - 22:00

Great Western Arcade becomes a cinema for the evening, playing host to a rip-roaring Harold Lloyd comedy famous for one particular moment.

The opening night of Flatpack has seen us visiting various churches and concert halls across the city, but this is the first time we’ve launched proceedings in a shopping arcade. Built in 1875 on top of a railway cutting between Snow Hill and Moor Street stations, the spectacular Great Western Arcade will be transforming itself into a cinema for one night only.

Our main feature includes one iconic moment which defined the film and its creator forever. Even if you’ve seen it a hundred times the clock-hanging sequence never fails to startle, but Harold Lloyd’s 1923 romantic comedy Safety Last! offers plenty of other unexpected pleasures and delights. This evening it will be accompanied by pianist John Sweeney, and before the lights go down there will be music and refreshments from some of the arcade’s wide variety of independent retailers.

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Dir: Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, USA 1923, 73 mins 

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