Harold Lloyd hanging off the face of the clock

Los Angeles, CA (Anywhere, USA)

Lloyd climbing up a building is the essential metaphor of American progress, as an individual and as a society. And to pile irony on top of irony, the penultimate trial puts him in conflict with a clock, the symbol of time, time that could be slipping away before he has become a success and married the girl. People who have never seen this film or any silent comedy at all recognize this powerful American image.

Kerr (pronounced "Care")