On Friday afternoon the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival in conjunction with The Academy of Motion Pictures presented  Harold Lloyd: New Dimensions in Sight And Sound.  The program was a part of the 2018 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival and was only open to pass-holders who were delighted by the new sights and sounds of the great silent movie comedian.  The new sights were a collection of Lloyd’s Home movies and 3D photographs and the new sounds came from an old source…a 1917 American Fotoplayer.

Throughout the program the music was supplied by Joe Rinaudo performing on the Fotoplayer which is a piano-organ hybrid used in theaters in the silent movie era.  The Fotoplayer was donated and restored by Mr. Rinaudo several years ago and is used by the Academy for movie programming and demonstrations.  The Academy’s Fotoplayer is one of very few that are available for public view.

The highlight of the program was Rinaudo performing on the Fotoplayer while the movies Jazzed Honeymoon and Never Weaken were hand-cranked on a 1909 Power’s Cameragraph Projector by Mr. Rinaudo’s assistant Gary Gibson. 

The program was hosted by Mr. Randy Habercamp of the Academy and Suzanne Lloyd, grand-daughter of the silent comedian.