Harold Lloyd drives a Pacific Electric trolley in Girl Shy (1924)

[Fnarge]

Doesn't Los Angeles look wonderful in these street scenes; so new, clean and tidy

with no crude advertising hoardings and of course no jet plane noise over head.

[uranian99]

@Fnarge Yeah, it's enough to make you cry when you think how lovely Los Angeles used to look.

[uranian99]

@uranian99 Yeah, or the nice way people used to dress. Now it looks like they're practically in their underwear.

[jooshiscrazy]

I know that the film is played at a high frame rate, but the streetcar still looks very fast. It must have been going at least 40 mph.

[uranian99]

@jooshiscrazy I think these cars DID go 40 mph. Any faster wouldn't be practical in suburban areas. Any faster than that would have caused it to jump the track.

[The5150Clown]

@uranian99 If those streetcars did 40 around those turns, they would jump the track. My great grandfather operated cars for Pacific Electric right up to the time they tore the tracks up. They could manage 45 or 50 on the straight track through the watts area

[uranian99]

@The5150Clown No, I meant that was the maximum speed. They wouldn't take those thurns at that speed, of course. Turns on street trackage were a much sharper radius than on the private right of way. I envy your great grandfather by the way :-)

[kirkconway]

Robert Israel was an absolute genius to be able to put perfect music to each scene.

the style of music  and the speed and tenor is totally perfect.

[jooshiscrazy]

@kirkconway This music is by Carl Davis.

[kirkconway]

@jooshiscrazy

noooo

thats wrong,,,

i have the comedy collection. and the music for gilrl shy was by Robert Israel

It say;s it is on the oening credit's on the film.

It's no big thing but I just wanted to get the fact's straight.

[peanut123iscute]

@jooshiscrazy Girl Shy Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer Sam Taylor Produced by Harold Lloyd Suzanne Lloyd Hayes (video release) Jeffrey Vance (video release) Written by Thomas J. Gray (titles) Sam Taylor (story) Tim Whelan (story) Ted Wilde (story) Starring Harold Lloyd Jobyna Ralston Music by Don Hulette (1974) Don Peake (1974 - additional music) Robert Israel (2002) Cinematography Walter Lundin Editing by Allen McNeil Release date(s) April 20, 1924 (USA)

[BuddyFantastic]

Classic Lloyd this. An amazing madcap silent movie comedy actor. R.I.P Harlod Lloyd, you're still making folk laugh to this day.

[NESherv]

This works GREAT with YouTube 1911!

[nosferatuist]

AMAZING! look the scene at 1:47,this man was EARL MOHAN (1889-1928)..He was really GREAT! :D

[kirkconway]

I have the harold lloyd comedy collection,

got it 3 yrs ago here in kansas,

girl shy is my favorite, the trolly car, the uncle, of course Jobyna, she was an absolute doll,

wowsie,

the music score was one of the best in the collection, I mean when he was going down those street's in that trolley?

it was totallly nut's,

i laughed till i cried,

and when He was trying to get to the girl;s home to stop that turkey from marrying jobyna when he was already married,

absolutly hilarious,

[denny906]

According to the movie database website IMDB.com Girl Shy was filmed in these locations:

Culver City, California, USA

Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

General Service Studios - 1040 N. Las Palmas, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Hollywood Center Studios - 1040 N. Las Palmas Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

[gesirgen]

@denny906 The trolley scene is likely to be shot on a Pacific Electric line near Downtown. Also, note the hilly streets. It could be the Bunker Hill area or north Downtown.

[NONGGOYJAA]

@denny906 do you know anything about the music that was used in the older releases?

[Jeffbear1]

It looks more like an L A Ry car to me. And Lloyd was "operating" it, not "driving" it.

[gesirgen]

@Jeffbear1 As I explained above in the uploader comments, it's more likely to be Pacific Electric car.

[uranian99]

@Jeffbear1 Both LARY and PE (with some exceptions like the 950's) had five window ends (called "California type.") This car is running in places where LARY didn't go. It's a Huntington Standard single unit car. And was owned by the PE

[gesirgen]

I can barely read the number on the streetcar as 234 on the version of the video I have.

Single-color scheme, size, style, and what appears to be standard-gauge tracks point out to Pacific Electric.

Can anyone figure out what street it is? Note the street on a hill.

A funny scene that was somehow cut during the editing was the streetcar operators mocking Harold for asking them to give him a ride.

I will try to upload a higher-quality version in the future.

[kaizerzydeco]

It's standard gauge, a PE car. LA Railways cars were narrow gauge.

[stlgtrace]

@kaizerzydeco I'm sure it's an LA railway car, the Orange Empire Railroad Museum out in Perris, California has an indentical car in its collection.

[uranian99]

@stlgtrace Nope, it's a single unit Pacific Electric passenger car. This car, (there were 4 of them) was for city and suburban use. Don't let the speed in the film fool you; they couldn't go that fast nor were they allowed to. It was the only car on the PE that had wicker sections on both ends. No example of this car survives today, as it was retired (scrapped) early. HO models of this car do exist.

[stlgtrace]

@kaizerzydeco I'm sure it's an LA railway car, the Orange Empire Railroad Museum out in Perris, California has an indentical car in its collection. It's hard to tell, it could be on a local line of the PE, the film is speeded up for comic effect so spotting a landmark is difficult.

[DNRY122]

Note that the numbers and railway name have been blanked out. It looks more like an LA Railway car than a Pacific Electric, but the fare register is more typical of PE. Also, I can't think of a PE line that has such a roundabout route.

[romanval69]

Actually a lot of trolley tracks are still in the ground; just embedded underneath the asphalt.