Haunted Spooks

Year Published: 1920

Complete Record: Slapstick comedy; sight-gags. Harold Lloyd loses girl, jumps off a bridge into very shallow water. Drives topless truck with a bird coop on the back while having his head pecked by birds. Scenes in a haunted house that includes racist stereotype period imagery of African Americans as “spooks.” A pair of trousers appear to walk around without a body. Famous image of Lloyd in CU against a black backdrop, high key lighting with his hair standing on end.