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Title: Laurel and Hardy's The battle of the Century Post by: Smilin Ed H on June 17, 2015, 09:08:11 AM Any Laurel and Hardy fans here? It seems like the missing footage has finally been found:
http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/laurel-and-hardys-battle-of-century.html Title: Re: Laurel and Hardy's The battle of the Century Post by: bgas on June 17, 2015, 02:11:20 PM Don't really care about L&H, but the article that followed , on Nitrate films, was very interesting!!
Title: Re: Laurel and Hardy's The battle of the Century Post by: The LEGENDARY OSD on June 17, 2015, 07:27:54 PM Thanks for posting. Love a good pie fight and these guys were the best at it. Big fan here with my favorite being the piano episode. Incredible restoration as well!
Title: Re: Laurel and Hardy's The battle of the Century Post by: Smilin Ed H on June 17, 2015, 11:12:54 PM To think how many films have been lost - not just through deterioration, but wilful destruction at the beginning of the sound ers...
Title: Re: Laurel and Hardy's The battle of the Century Post by: Jay on June 17, 2015, 11:30:31 PM As a L&H fan(I have a 22 dvd box set of them ;D), this just made me so many kinds of happy! :woot Now if we can just find "Hats Off"...
Title: Re: Laurel and Hardy's The battle of the Century Post by: Smilin Ed H on June 18, 2015, 10:04:11 AM As a L&H fan(I have a 22 dvd box set of them ;D), this just made me so many kinds of happy! :woot Now if we can just find "Hats Off"... +1 as they say on the Hoffman board. Title: Re: Laurel and Hardy's The battle of the Century Post by: Andrew G. Doe on June 27, 2015, 10:54:26 PM To think how many films have been lost - not just through deterioration, but wilful destruction at the beginning of the sound ers... I think the saddest tale of all lost footage (if it be true) is the missing reels of Greed: they were originally considered lost since the twenties and the savage cuts made by both von Stroheim and MGM (42 reels down to 23 and eventually 12, or about 145 minutes), but a 1993 book claimed that in the late 50s/early 60s that several reels labelled "McTeague" were discovered in the company's vaults and destroyed because no-one knew what they really were. Title: Re: Laurel and Hardy's The battle of the Century Post by: Mike's Beard on June 28, 2015, 03:53:08 AM I recall reading once that a staggeringly high number of silent fims were destroyed once the talkies came along.
Title: Re: Laurel and Hardy's The battle of the Century Post by: Andrew G. Doe on July 02, 2015, 04:53:21 PM Sadly true: the two most quoted figures are that 75% of all silents have been lost forever, and that 90% of all pre-1929 American movies have been in some way lost.
Probably the most famous lost silents are "London After Midnight", "The Queen Of Sheba" and "The Mountain Eagle". Title: Re: Laurel and Hardy's The battle of the Century Post by: halblaineisgood on July 16, 2015, 08:48:56 PM Haven't seen very many of the L&H silents. Are they avail. in a somewhat comprehensive DVD boxed set?
Title: Re: Laurel and Hardy's The battle of the Century Post by: elnombre on July 19, 2015, 10:27:50 AM Haven't seen very many of the L&H silents. Are they avail. in a somewhat comprehensive DVD boxed set? Are you in the UK? Title: Re: Laurel and Hardy's The battle of the Century Post by: halblaineisgood on July 19, 2015, 11:18:43 AM No.
Title: Re: Laurel and Hardy's The battle of the Century Post by: elnombre on July 19, 2015, 01:08:47 PM No. Ah damn, I'd spotted an in-store offer that may have been of use if you were. |