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Annette D'Agostino Lloyd

Historian

Sep 8, 2026

24:33
After all, this is a story about someone finding his convictions in his community at a time when people were dazed by the 24/7 international news coming off the telegraph, and the accelerating rate of change in the modern world of 1926.
24:48
The film is six reels, but it was actually previewed at seven reels.
24:56
And so this is another example of how important previews were to Harold.
25:04
Harold really, really, really depended on the preview, even if it meant pooh-poohing an idea that either he or his valued team of boys thought were great ideas.
25:20
For Heaven's Sake had the last part of the film, the chase to the rescue to get back, get to the wedding.
25:27
They had filmed a series of additional mishaps that were, in Harold's mind, so outlandish, so wrong, because they were so slapstick as to be unbelievable.
25:44
They, they were, in his mind, not realistic at all.

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39:02
Yeah.
10:45
"Well, yeah, what would it take?"
10:46
And, and Harold literally just says, "Okay, how much will it take?" You know, money was nothing to him.
10:51
So the guy says, "Well, I think $1,000 will do." And Harold looks like, "Are you kidding me? For that?" But he writes the check anyway.
11:02
And his, his daughter had read an article in the newspaper about this wonderfully wealthy man, and she was thinking, "You know, he could...
11:14
You know, he has n- n- no way to spend all of the money that he has, but I have an idea of something that he could use his money for that would really be beneficial, help our mission.
11:27
So I'm gonna write to him, and I'm gonna see if he can help us." Well, earlier in the scene, we had seen his secretary opening his mail, and we see this letter from Hope, played by Jobina Ralston.
11:43
She says, "I, I see that you, you have no way to spend all the money that y- you have.
13:45
[laughs]
2:16
In fact, we pick it up right where that episode left off, with the flip of a coin.
2:31
The flip of a coin, there's been a lot of, oh, is it, was it heads or tails? Which one was it? And luckily somewhere I was able to find the dime.
2:45
I found a picture of a dime in 1910.
2:50
It was, you know, it was small and round, but it had a laurel leaf on either side.
2:57
Harold, in one interview somewhere, I have it in my book, it said leaf side up.
3:05
So by that I can kind of determine and kind of conclude the west was tails and the heads was east.
3:17
And that was, again, very serendipitous.

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22:33
It would've been really kinda shallow if he didn't have the work ethic to back it up, I guess.

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