Here's a fun link - the Stanford theater in Palo Alto, California is
now a "revival house" showing classic films, but back in the '30s, '40s
and '50s, it showed then-current releases, which of course are now
considered classics. At this link, you can see what they showed
year-by-year. For classic comedy fans, there are some interesting
pairings (like a 1930s Laurel & Hardy short shown with an early Olsen &
Johnson feature) and folks like Clark & McCullough, the Marx Brothers,
the Bowery Boys, Abbott & Costello and others are all well-represented.
And plenty of Stan & Ollie, of course (both shorts and features, into
their 1940s output)! Interesting to note films that were re-released
over the years as well (for example, the animated feature "Hoppity Goes
to Town" playing a good 10 years...

My brother is a big proponent of downloading both
music & movies from the Web. We gathered at his place
the other night to watch a clean copy of the latest Bond
flick "Casino Royale" that he had successfully downloaded.
Outside of the end credit sequence looking slightly foggy
the entire movie looked like a Blockbuster release.

I asked him to search L & H and up came scads of material
that I percieved to be the European releases. Volumes numbered
thru 21 appeared and he is in the process of downloading vol. #17
& #21.

My question is since these obviously come from Region 2 discs
will they only play on multi-dvd players once they are downloaded?
Will our computers even recognize them to be played on our PC's?

Pardon my ignorance on these matters.

Gary J.

The "Lon Chaney Jr Collection" DVD includes an episode of Telephone Time
titled "The Golden Junkman" by Hal Roach Studios, produced by Hal Jr.

Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy "Red" Vinyl LP Picture Disc

I have for sale the BMG Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy "Red" Vinyl LP
Picture
Disc. The 33 RPM LP, Made in EEC contains 12 tracks of out takes from
Laurel &
Hardy films dating from 1933-1938 including: Fra Diavola, Highway
Robbery,
Never Mind Bo Peep, The Future Mrs Hardy, I Can't Get Over The Alps,
Even
As You And I, I Dreamt That I Dwelt, Every Cloud As A Silver Lining, A
Clean Sweep, Cricket Song, Danger By Clockwork, and Turn On The Radio.
The Laurel & Hardy "Red" Vinyl LP Picture Disc is in MINT condition.
Price $35. US plus postage

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While watching "Our Relations" earlier this week, it got me thinking of
other L&H features/shorts I haven't seen since the early '90s on Comedy
Central. Three stick out in particular..

One, I have no idea what it's about. All I can remember is that this
little bit was featured in the beginning montage of an episode of "The
Laurel & Hardy Show", when they were previewing that specific episode's
upcoming short(s). Basically, Stan has a car and drives it through the
wall of a (I think) hotel.. and the guy at the front desk just stares
in awe.. and Stan acts like everything's normal and says "Excuse me.."
Really funny bit, I just would love to see the short.

The second one I remember because there was a segment on The L&H Show
where they interviewed the composer of their now famous Cuckoo theme
and Stan's daughter.. and since she was always afraid of Ollie at first
since he's always hitting Stan, they showed a clip from this episode
where Stan got his revenge. All I remember was Ollie going into a
garage and Stan chopping down one of the beams with an axe, resulting
in it collapsing on top of him. I vaguely remember the short itself,
but it was always one of my favorites.

Paul Merton's Silent Clowns
BBC 4
This Friday
7pm and 2.30am

This episode is about Laurel and Hardy

Here's the cover art for the upcoming
W.C. Fields Comedy Collection: Volume 2

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I am pretty sure it was on the History Channel, which annoyed me the
most. And it was such DREADFUL colorization... the entire ground was
the same shade of green, for example. Putrid.

They are running a series on The Military Channel right now called
Battleground that's all about WWII battles. All the footage they use is
stuff I've seen a million times before, but never in color. It's a
pretty half-assed colorization job anyway.

I have seen feature films done that used old stock footage that had
been colorized. I have no problem with this, as it has to match the
rest of the film.