The Freshman (1925 film)

The Freshman
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Directed by	Fred C. Newmeyer Sam Taylor
Written by	John Grey Sam Taylor Tim Whelan Ted Wilde
Produced by	Harold Lloyd
Starring	Harold Lloyd Jobyna Ralston
Cinematography	Walter Lundin
Edited by	Allen McNeil
Music by	Harold Berg
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date	September 20, 1925 (1925-09-20)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent film English intertitles
Budget	$301,681[1]
Box office	$2.6 million[2]

The Freshman is a 1925 American silent comedy film that tells the story of a college freshman trying to become popular by joining the school football team. It stars Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict, and James Anderson. It remains one of Lloyd's most successful and enduring films. When the film opened on September 20 at the B.S. Moss Colony Theater on Broadway, Broderick & Felsen's production of Campus Capers was the opening act which was engaged for the full ten weeks of the film's run.

The film was written by John Grey, Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan, and Ted Wilde. It was directed by Taylor and Fred C. Newmeyer.

In 1990, The Freshman was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," added in the second year of voting and one of the first 50 films to receive the honor.^[3]