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I remember about a year or two ago, news broke out about Michael Agee (runner of
http://www.halroachstudios.com) about remastering and whatnot all of L&H's pre-1929 shorts, solos, and features into basically an ultimate package. Since we still don't have a decent collection of the sound shorts stateside, I'd love this in the meantime.. I really don't want to invest in the scarce and expensive "Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy" discs that were released eons ago, I'd just as well wait.. as long as this boxset is still planned. Any news?
Matt
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Re: Any Updates On the Ultimate Early Laurel and Hardy Boxset?
So what happened with this set? Was it released? Delayed? If it came out, where can I snag a copy?
Matt
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Re: Any Updates On the Ultimate Early Laurel and Hardy Boxset?
Why not just divide the set into multiple chronological collections? That would be easier to market, probably.
Tell The Weinstein Company to release Richard Williams' animated masterpiece
The Thief and the Cobbler on DVD in Panavision widescreen and uncut! See and hear what you're missing from their
Bitsy Award winner of Worst Standard Edition DVD of 2006 on
YouTube!
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Re: Any Updates On the Ultimate Early Laurel and Hardy Boxset?
Well, Michael Agee's site is down. Looks like this set was a dud. Off to eBay I go..
Matt
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Re: Any Updates On the Ultimate Early Laurel and Hardy Boxset?
hopefully this happens. I'd love to get this, I'd shelll out the $200 for the big set.
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Re: Any Updates On the Ultimate Early Laurel and Hardy Boxset?
From Michael Agee:
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We are ready to accept orders. We originally priced this at $399 in a shoebox-sized epic similar to the thing put out in the UK a few years ago. (Of course, the key difference is that you can actually SEE our masters.) Someone asked the very sensible question--"do we really need ANOTHER shoebox full of DVD's? For which the customer has to pay?" I decided, "No", and compressed everything onto twelve double-layered discs, designed them into a "slim pac" design with a beautiful color booklet displaying all the L&H one sheets full page, and retailing it for $199.99--two hundred dollars (half of our originally planned price). With the dollar in the shitcan, those in other countries will have a real steal on their hands.
A "Paypal" ordering page is going up in a week or so with a pre-publication discount price of $180--AND the first 50 to order right now will immediately be sent a set of the beautiful Al Herschfeld lithographs, the one sheets on BIG BUSINESS and DOUBLE WHOOPEE, printed at a very frameable 16x20.
Our publication date is set for December 15.
Of course, we accept orders by mail as well.
HAL ROACH STUDIOS
PO BOX 790
Yorba Linda, California 92885-0790
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Still way too expensive considering I won't watch half of the stuff on this.. either way though, it'll be nice to see the remastered L&H,
Matt
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Re: Any Updates On the Ultimate Early Laurel and Hardy Boxset?
If that PDF is right, he's cramming too much stuff on these discs and quality is likely to suffer. 251 minutes on one disc? Unless he's going DVD-18, that's really pushing it. I would really rather he JUST did the Laurel & Hardy and gave the films sufficient bit space than trying to shoehorn the entire Hal Roach Studios onto these DVDs.
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Re: Any Updates On the Ultimate Early Laurel and Hardy Boxset?
Yeah that blurb from Agee was from a reliable member at the Laurel & Hardy Forum.
As we discussed there, this sounds like a bootleg compiled set.. I'm not saying the quality is going to be lacking, but he's fitting all of this stuff on some cheap dual-layer discs.. so I dunno. There's no guarantee it'll have the nice packaging, either.
Kind of wish I bought the old releases when I had the chance. It's still way too overpriced with half of the crap I'm not interested in.
Matt
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Re: Any Updates On the Ultimate Early Laurel and Hardy Boxset?
Agee is a good guy just unreliable. A lot of people at the L&H Forum are still in an uproar over this, and with good reason. Sigh, sad.
Volume 9 of the "Lost" films just went over $100 on eBay - THAT'S ONE DVD! There went any hope of collecting these...
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