1920s Laughing Records Were Weird...

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[@cjod33]

In India, people gather in public places for laughing sessions. They just start to laugh and it catches. Before you know it your in the middle of 50 or more laughing at themselves, everyone and anything. It's a great healer!

[@suzybearheart530]

When I was a kid, sometimes groups of us would play "the laughing game" where we'd all lay on the floor, heads resting on each other's bellies. One of us would start laughing and see how long it took until we were all laughing. It was really silly but so fun!

[@PaisleyPatchouli]

@@suzybearheart530 Yes, we played that game too. We called it "Chuckle Belly". :-)

[@suzybearheart530]

@@PaisleyPatchouli I like the name Chuckle Belly - it is so accurate. 😅

[@dickiegreenleaf750]

Mental illness.

[@mickyboymccoy7632]

Are you in the middle with your pants pulled down?

[@BillyBanter100]

Over here in Britain we had 'The Laughing Policeman'. A great old recording that's still entertaining to listen to.

[@Bella-fz9fy]

Yes,that was an old music hall number by Charles Jolly😅 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnqUn4OabM2YsK8si=BBDE0_SiH5375BjP

[@DerBingle1]

This is brilliant! The laughter is infectious! I suffer from sevier depression and now I'm going to listen to these...like all the time.

[@dawnmayhew2844]

Yep me too 😢😅

[@FreihEitner]

100 years from now I believe people will be having the same confusion over 2010s/2020s KZbin "reaction" videos -- watching someone exaggeratedly reacting while watching something else.

[@ShannonLee1956]

I'm already confused by this!

[@erikwinkelman4668]

…or muckbang videos.

[@Jakob-zs1qu]

You think this planet will make it another 100 years? Highly not

[@JuniorPolancoLaCoalicion]

I have never found any sense in reaction videos, no need to wait 100 years😂

[@tgh2048]

This was used on a Walter Lantz cartoon (creator of Woody Woodpecker) about a man with high blood pressure trying to sleep with noisy laughing neighbors. Punchline was it turned out to be his doctor who diagnosed him, and the man literally exploded, then doctor and nurse went back to laughing and playing that trombone. Very strange.

[@jonwashburn7999]

Thanks for reminding me of what the cartoon was.

[@Layerboyz]

I thought of the same cartoon.

[@byzcath]

I thought about an MGM Tex Avery cartoon that has the same exact premise. I don’t know who’s came earlier, but the Tex Avery one was hilarious!

[@dave3657]

Once I heard it I remembered the cartoon. Spot on. 😂

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

I saw that cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and I found it again on KZbin a few years ago. It's called "SSSSHHHHH." It was made sometime in the early 1950s (I think) by the Universal-International studio, and it concerned a fellow named Mr. Tweedle, who plays the bongo drums in a jazz club band, until he can no longer stand loud horn playing and has a nervous breakdown. He goes to see a psychiatrist, whose wife is also his nurse. (Why a psychiatrist would have a nurse working for him I'll never know.) The doctor tells Mr. Tweedle that he's a very sick man, that if he doesn't get away from noisy horns, his whole nervous system will just shatter! "You'll just BLOW UP!" the doctor says. He recommends that Mr. Tweedle take a vacation somewhere where there's plenty of peace and quiet. Mr. Tweedle chooses a small hotel in the Swiss Alps, which, as the manager says "pride ourselves on quiet." Indeed, everyone tries to be as quiet as possible. The bellhop who shows Mr. Tweedle to his room bids him goodnight, not by words, but by small cards that say "Good night. Sleep tight. The Management." (As an extra sight gag, when the bellhop holds out his hand for a tip, Tweedle gives him only a quarter, causing the bellhop to walk away with an angry look on his face and hold up a card that reads "Cheapskate!") Inside the room, absolute quiet is insured by a clock that doesn't tick, but displays the words "Tick Tock" on its pendulum, two faucets in the bathroom that wrapped up in towels so they can't drip, thus avoiding the dripping sound, and even a light switch that doesn't make the clicking sound when it's turned off, but merely displays a sign that says "Click." Soon, Mr. Tweedle is fast asleep. But then, for some reason that's never explained, the other bellhops deliver a big meal and a slide trombone to the people in the room next to the one belonging to Tweedle, who's soon awakened by the sound of trombone playing and wild, uninhibited laughter. Tweedle tries everything he can think of to get the man and woman next door to quit making so much noise, but his efforts are constantly stymied. For example, he sends them a note telling them to "please stop blowing that horn," only to receive a note from them saying "Ah, shut up!" Finally, he can't take it anymore and has another nervous breakdown, running to the manager and crying out "My nerves, my nerves! Get me a doctor, quick!" Looking through the register, the manager finds a doctor -- who turns out to be the man in the room next door blowing the trombone! Not only that, but the doctor is none other than Mr. Tweedle's OWN PSYCHIATRIST, WHO'S ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE/NURSE! "Mr. Tweedle," the stunned doctor says, "You, here?" Tweedle, of course, is FURIOUS that his rest has been ruined by the same psychiatrist and nurse who had specifically recommended that he go somewhere where there's peace and quiet, and he begins to fly into a rage! (Who can blame him?) "Now Mr. Tweedle," the doctor tries to warn, "remember your nerves. YOU'LL BLOW UP!" Mr. Tweedle DOES BLOW UP, his whole body completely disintegrated! But all the psychiatrist can say is, "Some people just won't take their doctors' advice." Then, as if they don't have a care in the world, he and his wife/nurse go right back to playing their trombone, laughing it up, and having a great time. You say this film was made by Walter Lantz, but I heard that it was written by "Tex" Avery.

[@jsizemo]

In a sense this did survive in different form, as in laugh tracks for early sitcoms, the ones not “ filmed before a live studio audience”

[@raeraebadfingers]

That's what I was just thinking like "what they kinda still do that right?" 😅

[@orionova]

I'm a radio DJ with a comedy music show, and I have used the Okeh Laughing record for my promos. It just makes me smile.

[@richardgillette5759]

you are a psychopath

[@scented-leafpelargonium3366]

I remember Laurel & Hardy doing some unstoppable laughing in their films and it is infectious! They were very good at it. The Bible says in the Proverbs of King Solomon that: "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." 🤗😆😅😂🤣😃😀☺

[@borderlands6606]

Recordings lived on in amusement arcades, with the Laughing Policeman. A coin in a slot animated a policeman or sailor doll in a glass booth, who laughed for a couple of minutes. These existed in the UK until at least the 1980s, possibly later, when they became collectable. The German recordings were made shortly after the end of WW1, and reflected the need for fun in a broken Europe, as well as a certain cynicism at the loss of old certainties. The first talkies (1920s movies with sound) had a fascination with laughing, crying and screaming.

[@aariley2]

Would be cool for Halloween or a guest room if your guests won't leave!😂

[@valfletcher9285]

I used to have a laughing box novelty in the 70's when I was a kid and I LOVED it! It is HILARIOUS...Lofty and "a gas" and I can see how his fits into a 1923 vibe!!!

[@maxi-me]

Oh shit! Just remembered something like that my dad brought home! Looked like an odd shaped flesh colored transistor radio. Inside was a bright red clear record inside. Just laughing.

[@gretaeberhardt541]

@valfletcher9285 Oh my gosh, but for your comment I wouldn’t have ever remembered those. My neighbor had one and we had such fun with it, life was good back then. Such a silly thing, but good memory of a simpler, better time.

[@maxi-me]

@gretaeberhardt541 Yes but sadly we all moved on, once _Stretch Armstrong_ and _Lite-brite_ hit the scene....🤣

[@muppetonmeds]

I have one it is called a laughing bag and it's in a small cloth bag.

[@HeadNtheClouds]

Yes, a laugh box! I had one too 😂

[@robertfitchett-o6n]

certainly creepy in the dark room vibe. sheer novelty is often a fast seller, usually quickly forgotten, but interesting nonetheless. thanks for this. cheers,

[@RandomRetr0]

I think they’re creepy but probably weren’t back then. There is one that does make me laugh, The Laughing Policeman

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

​@@RandomRetr0 "The Laughing Policeman" is also the title of a crime movie from 1973, starring Walter Matthau as a San Francisco police detective who's investigating a mass murder of eight people on a bus.

[@brandyjean7015]

I remember folks wasting money on pet rocks too.

[@susanpage8315]

I still have mine.

[@brandyjean7015]

@@susanpage8315 at least you got your money's worth!

[@williamsmith5549]

This really was the Greatest Decade, ever!

[@skyjust828]

Laughter is truly great medicine ❣️ im sure during the great depression it helped many.😂

[@artimusgarcia-cuellar8026]

I love your channel! Keep it up!

[@naturalcambion3747]

This is like a 1920’s Creepypasta.

[@NorthshireGaming]

This reminds me of that Hispanic man who was telling the story of having to wash restaurant pans down at the beach and ultimately losing them, while laughing hysterically. Most people who saw that had absolutely no idea what he was talking about. But there was something deeply infectious with his laugh, which somehow, despite the language barrier, made the story relatable.

[@mao2233]

I hope you can answer a question cued by the illustrations in thsi video. You show an ad for the Okeh Laughing Record. In the ad it refers to the record being "a better cure than Munyon ever had!" I've tried researching it but got no results. Do you have any idea who Munyon is? If a commenter knows, could you share with us? I have a feeling this could be a source for another 1920sChannel video. Thank you for any help you may be able to give.

[@The1920sChannel]

That refers to James Monroe Munyon (died in 1918). He offered medicines to cure pretty much everything, many or most of which were questionable. He advertised all over the place in the US, so he would have been widely known by name.

[@mao2233]

@@The1920sChannel Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I now know who to look up. Very cool.

[@LTPottenger]

I play it on a loop so people will think I'm having a party.

[@CHESEABUN]

I remember as a child hearing an old record called “ The laughing policeman”

[@CHESEABUN]

1922

[@namco003]

I listened to a station called the 1920s radio network in my car, as they played music between 20s-40s, but Sat/Sun night was old time radio shows, mostly comedies. It remained as my default station for about 12 years, until they changed formats for that station. I used to listen to the station at home on Winamp before that. It still runs as an online radio station. SUBBED

[@Weaponsandstuff93]

The Laughing Policeman is the best one as it's sort of a song with the laughing combined.

[@BlameThande]

So what current trend is going to seem as strange as this in retrospect in a century's time? My vote goes to unboxing videos.

[@whistlingsage9817]

I think the ASMR had seemed very similar to the laughing record craze. Edit: I've been thinking about it, and I think the novelty factor with all of these things is that they entice an unwarranted physical response of some kind from out of the person experiencing the media, and that response isn't caused by the normal stimulus. For example, being compelled to laugh even though nothing funny has been said; feeling excitement and anticipation over the uncovering of a new thing even though you personally are doing nothing but watching a video. Getting a shiver when you hear a sound that seems close to your ear, when nothing is really there. All of these sensations have a novelty value. Kind of like when doctors used to tap patients knees with reflex hammers, which can only detect one rare form of nerve disease, but makes the patient feel that the doctor is doing something educated. It's kind of a thrill.

[@maxi-me]

Watching DoorDash drivers pick up food at a restaurant and drop it off on someone's porch. Over and over, episode after episode.

[@Poundz978]

I Vote for people pretending to be NPCs for twitch donations.

[@spankynater4242]

Kool-aid hair.

[@JackF99]

Nailed it. Next dumbest trend on YT are music reaction videos where someone reacts to a song that everybody in the world has heard a million times, pretending they've never heard it before.

[@sallycormier1383]

I found the crying record made me laugh while the laughing records creeped me out. 😂

[@dench2695]

Ok, Sally.

[@erikt454]

It sounded like one or more cryer was starting to laugh at the end of the clip featured here, I thought...

[@raeraebadfingers]

They sure were trying to lament lol

[@stumbling]

I can just imagine someone having a bad break-up, coming home and slapping on The Okeh Crying Record. xD

[@lefty-bw1zp]

What Harold Lloyd movie is shown at 4:18?

[@bridgetdavis9752]

Thank you for a great video, I had never heard of this before. I wonder if they were for background, to make a party seem bigger, or a funeral, depending.

[@AnnieO100]

Canned Laughter

[@jonathanweir6084]

the writer from england, Lawrence Durrell talked about his friend at the boarding house they lived in would play a laughing record over and over as he was losing his mind. The book is called the Black Book.

[@Richard-l9h8r]

This is why Im wanting to hear recordings of regular conversations from regular people in normal non acting situations in the 1920s. To see what odd trends in speaking there may have been

[@stevefish3124]

The Okeh Laughing Record is the American releade of Beka's "Die Mißglückte Jugendzeit", The name of the song Otto Rathke tries to play on the trumpet is called "Aus der Jugendzeit", Obviosly, he failed and that's the pun. He also does the laughing along with Lucy Bernardo and is credited on the Beka record for writing the sketch.

[@willie_mellow]

Just sounds like every morning radio talk show I've ever heard. No dialog, just lots of laughing.

[@Modeltnick]

I have an original copy of the Okeh laughing record and I can’t get past the first few seconds without turning it off. Yes, creepy and weird!

[@Nicksnerdcave]

3:42 “imagine this playing in a dark room, in the middle of the night” welp. Here I am. I am scared, time to put on some spongebob.

[@commonpike]

Well, obviously ? People probably didn't know the sound of laughter by itself was contagious. And they liked that.

[@potato-phobia85yearsago27]

Certainly unsettling that these people are gone by now but their laughter will probably echo for hundreds of years.

[@CoreyChambersLA]

They could also be used as a laugh track of course.

[@MovieMakingMan]

Laughter is a smile with the volume turned up.

[@TTM9691]

Fascinating!!!!!

[@rosieHolliday5887]

I think I've heard one of these records being played before. My Grandad had so many old records when I was a child in the 1970s & I feel like he may have had one of these laughing records.

[@Kriswixx]

You should hear this - Slow beat track from Josh Wink- called Don't Laugh and has a homage and progression to this amazing piece of history, but in a slow house/drum and bass basic kicker thump and increased tonal amplitude of a laugh. It just works. Cheers.

[@vmtz2001]

Someone from the era of the internet where sounds effects are so readily available would never understand. Sound effects of all kinds were a novelty for special occasions or pranks even in the 90’s.

[@davidkennerly]

Since I'm old enough to have known many people who were around in the 1920's, I know them to have been less cynical, in general, than people today. They were more naive and emotionally open and "communitarian" in their approach to entertainment. They may not have been that way all of the time but entertainments was a "special" time far less often indulged in than today. At the time, recordings were the only form of entertainment that could be taken privately with all others involving at least small groups in homes (lots of people had pianos or other instruments then). The laughing recordings reflect this openness to shared entertainment experiences that involved putting away inhibitions and defenses in the interest of that shared experience.

[@aunonymoustip8246]

I find a lot of old footage and things dating up into the 70's possessing a creepy atmosphere. I don't know but I have felt that way since I was a kid in the 80's.

[@magatow1906]

It makes sense that this would exist because audio recording was such a new technology then. And I wonder what other weird things were being recorded simply because it was possible to do so. In 100 years, imagine how people will see the ASMR videos KZbinrs are currently churning out. They will say "okay, tingles- we get it but it's kind of weird."

[@tikitavi7120]

Perhaps because laughing can be somewhat contagious these records were played at social gatherings to lighten people up and have fun. Pretty simple really.

[@Murgatroydian]

We've come full circle with all the zany ASMR that's become so popular.

[@dave3657]

3:08 The Laughing Man looks like an inspiration for The Joker from Batman. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

I think you're right. I once had a book called "Batman: from the '30s to the '70s," and it said that the Joker's constantly grinning face was inspired by the frequently grinning face of the main character in the silent film "The Man Who Laughs" (1928), which was based on a novel by Victor Hugo. (The author of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Les Miserables.")

[@peeringthrough]

It was a direct inspiration for The Joker in Batman. The film is 'The Man Who Laughs' from 1928 starring Conrad Veidt. The writers and illustrators for the comic said they took inspiration from the film. In the film the main character's face looks like that because he was disfigured with what is called a Glasgow Smile which is cutting the corner of a person's mouth as a form of punishments. If you have ever seen the actor Tommy Flanagan from Sons of Anarchy and Gladiator, he has a real Glasgow Smile.

[@jamiefoyers2800]

It was only a century ago...not really THAT long ago if you think about it. I guess everyone was just experimenting with sound and what worked and what didn't. Time for a 2020's remix on these early records I think!.

[@akatripclaymore.9679]

Remind's me of Monty Python's "the funniest joke in the world" from the meaning of life!😂😅😆🤣🤪

[@Sebman1113]

The invention of the Laugh track

[@mikemainer3009]

What was really creepy was your short clip of a 1920s laughing Joker....

[@paulhundy2986]

Like something a serial killer would play while going about his work .

[@technodazed]

This reminds me of an 80s song from Fishbone's In Your Face Album called Post Cold War Politics

[@Looney3987]

I have a laughing record on the Cameo label. I have NO IDEA what year it's from. But it's about two siblings on a farm in the south laughing about how good their life is? Possibly the one shown at the bottom right in your video at time marker 7:04.

[@KLUNKET]

Isn't it obvious why these records were popular? The old phrase "laughter is the best medicine" is no joke, laughter enhances your intake of oxygen, stimulates your heart, lungs and muscles, and increases the endorphins that are released by your brain. It reduces stress, and simply makes you feel good. These records were popular because laughter is infectious! People would put on the record, hear the laughing and it would make them laugh! Entertainment was a scarce commodity in the 1920s, there was no television, no internet, no cell phones, people had to entertain themselves! Put on the record, hear the laughing, it starts you and your friends and family to laughing, everybody feels good... it wasn't strange. You are thinking in 2020 terms and not 1920s.

[@abraxaseyes87]

I know what I'll play/blast for Halloween next year.

[@ML-iz1gs]

I have a collection of them I own from bandcamp which has most of them and includes research of who was responsible.

[@yatinexile7144]

I thought this was gonna be about somebody setting a new world record for laughing.

[@marknoahsotelo316]

Fascinating as always! Love the channel. I find internet archive a little frustrating to navigate, is it possible to get a link to these records?

[@lephtovermeet]

You have to keep in mind people in general just had so much less access to media. You had the paper, then books and records if you could afford them, then radio and silent movies. For the most part, you couldn't really put on something just for noise or for the atmosphere. I could see these being sold just as how apps selling sound scapes to affect your mood or help your meditation are sold today.

[@squirrel-1969]

Holy Hannah Batman! Is that the OG Joker?

[@brucevair-turnbull8082]

Well, there was 'The Laughing Policeman' also recorded in 1922. There's also a weird laughing segment on King Crimson's 'Lizard' album (1970) so the trend obviously kept going...

[@THR-zf6ti]

Actually in Berlin of the wild 1920's opium, cocaine and especially hashish was getting very popular! I can imagine that they simply had the experiences in the studios ...

[@pyrettablaze0414]

Creepy nostalgia… the first drawing looks like a Shel Silverstein drawing

[@ccoopey]

In the UK in the 60s and 70s ‘The Laughing Policeman’ by Charles Penrose was a great favourite on the children’s radio programme ‘Junior Choice’. Amazingly, having checked, it dates back to 1922. Recorded exactly in the period explored in this episode!

[@dollyraestar7624]

I thought of the laughing policeman watching this, particularly this one time I heard it played on repeat all afternoon across the way from where I was working. That was an experience! And even through it becoming very annoying repeatedly it was basically impossible not to keep laughing at it. Part of the trend/adjacent to it then I suppose!

[@Bella-fz9fy]

From an earlier music hall trend that included’The laughing lover’(also,the laughing major,jockey etc!).

[@startupadmin540]

What’s the possibility they played these recordings while projecting silent films in the theater? Seems throughout the 1950-1980s TV shows always inserted recorded laughter, cueing or signaling where they wanted the TV viewing audience to laugh. Some shows prefaced “recorded in front of a live audience” before the beginning of the show but always seemed to have the one distinctive male toned laugh in the background = recorded.

[@stephendoherty1275]

The crying record reminded me that Romans (I believe) and ancient Egyptians would pay for "Mourners" to cry at their loved ones funerals. I some were paid to laugh, like a Jester...

[@oreally8605]

That baby in the bassinet is probably deceased now, or 103 years old. 😳

[@fridaymiles]

Amazing! Thanks for the wonderful story. You've never heard e everything!

[@johnfisher9639]

Laurel and Hardy used the laughing gag in several films: "Leave the Laughing", "Blotto", "Scram", and "The Devil's Brother".

[@hjtres7261]

Can you please do more Deaths of 1920s actors/actresses? Thank you ❤

[@mickylove76]

The crying one was hilarious

[@KC-blues]

The only record I thought was creepy was the crying record, and its only because there was sad music playing during the crying. There should have been happy music playing during the crying to balance it out. The first laughing record played was the best, because there was sad music playing during the laughing. So what I am getting at is that I see it as a meditative tool, and not at all too hard to understand.

[@danielmart7940]

I wonder if my grandfather, born in 1904, listened to these as a young man

[@hokusman100]

This KZbinr: Complex and thoughtful description of an obscure trend My idiot brain after hearing any exuberant laughter: BUM-BA-BA-BA-BA-BUM-BUM FeEL gOoD

[@chrisnemec5644]

Another possibility: On the vaudeville circuit, if the actors weren't having them rolling in the aisles, they could play this and get the audience laughing.

[@paulsawczyc5019]

Sounds like the guy that calls coast to coast paranormal radio talk show.

[@jamestregler1584]

Thanks from old New Orleans 😎

[@gregrogers6886]

Maybe we need more laughter today.

[@lancelessard2491]

Wow! Those records were expensive. 75cents in 1922 is equal to $13.90 today when adjusted for inflation.

[@jonwashburn7999]

Not creepy, but sort of surprising that comedy recordings weren't more common.

[@holier_than_thou]

Reminds me a bit of Dark Side of the Moon

[@xbrandi12345x]

Great video! This is definitely creepy. Laughter and Lemons is a little less creepy but I am glad we leave the laughing to the listeners nowadays and make comedy albums instead of these unsettling laughing records. I am surprised these laughing records were big at all, I really am.

[@craigwall9536]

Nothing beats "the Farting Contest".

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

This was one of the reasons people used laugh tracks. It's much harder not to laugh if others laugh too. Like yawning, or Covid-19, laughter is infectios. As little kids especially you can get in a silly mood and no one can prevent themselves from laughing like crazy.....my mom and her cousin who were small children in the 1920's (she'd be 100 if she were alive today) started laughing so uncontrollably that my grandma tried separating them in different rooms and even then, one would hear the other giggle and then the other would giggle and pretty soon they'd get uncontrollably laughing again. My mom said it alarmed her mother so much she thought they were literally going hysterical and her mother, being 1/2 German (or maybe full German, I forget) took a medically scientific approach and wrapped her boy cousin in cold wet sheets and made him lay down. I know I would get uncontrollably laughing any time I wasn't supposed to, like in class, or in church. I felt bad for my English teacher, who mistook my best friend's and my laughter as appreciation of a rather amusing English literature joke he had made, and he kept elaborating on said joke but our laughter had nothing whatsoever to do with our teacher. I still feel bad about that to this day, decades later. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6iTgqKHjZlrodksi=jT4VdFoYgs94uKwm

[@wigwagstudios2474]

I think those "laughing boxes" from the 1970s are WAY WAY WAY creepier. Same thing, it's basically a laughing record, only it's one of those small plastic records with a battery mechanism made for toys. Now THOSE are creepy.

[@borderlands6606]

The Addams Family "Thing" money boxes from 1964, were creepy. A plain black box which shook and made grinding noises when a coin was put in a slot. After a while a lid opened, and a hand slowly emerged to snatch the coin, with the lid snapping shut and the noise ending. My uncle had one and I was fascinated by it as a kid.

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

... and then there were the whistling records. You could be a star if you could whistle!

[@dawnmayhew2844]

I need to get some they are contagious ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@robertsteinberger5667]

So this is where michael got his inspiration from to make the outro of thriller

[@jackkilman8726]

The crying record is so over-the-top it's funny in its own right

[@greenbeans575]

Younger generations seem to be uncomfortable in silence. I see this in videos they make with annoying, overly loud background "music" (noise) and how very fast they speak-hardly a breath being taken. This may account for the "creepy" factor with these laughing records. They may not be used to taking a moment to live in the moment.

[@slh950]

its similar to "laughing yoga" workshops

[@alandesouzacruz5124]

Very funny and weird

[@GrammyAmanda]

Simultaneously funny and creepy.

[@TheoTheTimeTravelingMagician]

What is the clip of Harold Lloyd getting his pants ripped off at a party from?

[@The1920sChannel]

It’s from “The Freshman” (1925), probably my favorite movie of his

[@TheoTheTimeTravelingMagician]

@@The1920sChannel thanks! I’ve seen clips of it, and I’ve loved the parts that I’ve seen. I’ve seen pretty much all of his full length movies, and that one looks like it’s one of the best. I’ve also seen Mad Wednesday (I love it) so if the sequel is that good, the original has got to be amazing!

[@douglaschance2437]

Can you talk about crying records

[@QueenOfTheNorth65]

This falls into the category of “fads that didn’t age well.” 😉

[@radicalross7700]

Since you're putting to a vote, I vote creepy. But when I see clips of "The Man Who Laughs" film, I always think if not for that movie, Batman's arch enemy,, the Joker might not have come to be