home run at the game Harold attends. Meusel's at bat was not filmed for the movie but was taken from newsreel footage. Awards and nominations Ted Wilde, the director of the film, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director of a Comedy, which was used for only the 1st Academy Awards. He lost to Lewis Milestone, the director of Two Arabian Knights. Production Location shooting for the Coney Island scenes cost a reported $150,000. Then they reissued in December 1928 and refilmed with three dialogue sequences are taken on July 12, 1928 Preservation status The complete silent and sound copies exist and the 16" recorded soundtrack discs for the film survive complete and are housed at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The film's trailer also survives. See also Harold Lloyd filmography List of United States comedy films References External links Progressive Silent Film List : Speedy at silentera.com Speedy at Virtual History Trailer at Archive.org www.film-festival.org Still as Rhode Island International Film Festival notice Speedy essay by Jeffrey Vance for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival Speedy: The Comic Figure of the Average Man an essay by Phillip Lopate at the Criterion Collection 1928 films 1928 comedy films Silent American comedy films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films directed by Ted Wilde Films set in Brooklyn Films set in Coney Island Films set in New York City Films shot in New York City Rail transport films Films set in amusement parks Films with screenplays by John Grey Paramount Pictures films 1920s English-language films 1920s American films