Roger Ebert has this blog post—Harold Lloyd: A rare early short and an interview—that contain video of the recently restored Harold Lloyd (1893-1971) film Captain Kidd's Kid.
Lloyd was one of the most successful comic film stars of all time. He is not as well know today as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, partially because he was shrewd enough to retain the copyright to most of his films. His films were not broadcast on TV, because of the high price he wanted to sell the broadcast rights. The Ebert post also contains video of a 1962 interview Lloyd did with Harry Reasoner.
In addition to the clips you can watch on Ebert's post, here is the sequence that Lloyd is probably most remembered for today—the clock scene from the 1923 film Safety Last.
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