Thereby capturing two of my most favorite films.It's about time we all give RAH a Laurel and Hardy Handshake !
Thereby capturing two of my most favorite films.It's about time we all give RAH a Laurel and Hardy Handshake !
"You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead." - Stan LaurelGood luck with that. I doubt many of the "younger generation" will see this film, much less the L&H originals.
Unless by "younger generation" you mean "people under 100" - then maybe!
Wouldn't it be great if "Stan & Ollie" led a younger generation back to their own discoveries of the Laurel & Hardy shorts?
I hope you're wrong - but I fear you may be right. Let's hope not. The only thing I see new in today's film is CGI.Don't count on it. When I saw it, I was the youngest person in the theater and I'm in my 60's.
It's not like the 1970's when college kids rediscovered Keaton, Chaplin, the Marx Brothers, etc. and there were film courses about them.
I fear that film history to many younger people today is discovering Tim Burton's Batman movie.
Be careful - this years flu is nothing to play with. Treat yourself well - lots of rest and fluids.I was supposed to watch this last night, but I think I am coming down with the flu and I spent the night in bed instead.
Have been dying to see this film.
My love for Laurel & Hardy harkens back to my teen years where I collected their films on Super 8mm. I built a makeshift theater in my basement (where my current theater now resides), and invited friends over to watch titles like LIBERTY, THE LAUREL & HARDY MURDER CASE, THE MUSIC BOX, etc.
Will probably finally watch this over the weekend. Looking forward to it.
Do I detect a fellow Blackhawk Films collector? Good ol' Davenport, Iowa.[...]My love for Laurel & Hardy harkens back to my teen years where I collected their films on Super 8mm. I built a makeshift theater in my basement (where my current theater now resides), and invited friends over to watch titles like LIBERTY, THE LAUREL & HARDY MURDER CASE, THE MUSIC BOX, etc.[...]
Another fellow Blackhawk Films collector, as well? If so, then wouldn't that be something to find that we have all reconvened at HTF.[...]I bought a Super 8 sound projector just to watch L&H films before the BetaMax came out so they were also my entry into the world of movie collecting.
In most cases, I've found that people were either L&H or Abbott and Costello fans but never both. I, on the other hand, happen to love both teams, as well. Long ago, there was a "Home Movies" group known as Castle Films (a subsidiary of Universal Pictures). Ever heard of them? They offered 7-9 minutes excerpts of the A&C films, to which I must've had about 7 of them; along with a vinyl recording of "Who's on First?". Castle Films also offered feature-film excerpts of W.C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, the 1930's Monster classics and - in color, no less - our first landing on the moon; to which I'm certain I had worn out.While I’m partial to Abbott and Costello, the greatest comedy duo ever imo, I’ve always liked L&H. Especially their perennial classic March Of The Wooden Soldiers.
I look forward to this film and hope it does indeed spark more interest in their great work.
Oh yes Blackhawk films and sales. One I bought was You're Darn Tootin which was the, I think, first silent L&H I'd ever seen. The only TV showings I ever saw were the 2 reeler soundies. I also bought a couple of films at full tilt from a place called Thomas Film Classics. He was an avid 16mm collector and sold me my projector and later my first betamax.Do I detect a fellow Blackhawk Films collector? My Super 8mm projector was a Eumig Magnetic Sound.
I could only afford the films that went on sale. Remember how all their films went on back-order? And sometimes the wait went on for weeks and weeks. "The Music Box", "Sons of the Desert", "Them Thar Hills", "Tit for Tat", "A Chump at Oxford". Such joys. Hoping you are faring better.
Another fellow Blackhawk Films collector, as well? If so, then wouldn't that be something to find that we have all reconvened at HTF.
Guess the old saying remains true, as "water seeks its own level".
I, too, happen to love both teams, as well; yet, in most cases, I've found that people were either L&H or Abbott and Costello fans but never both. Castle Films, if you ever heard of them and depending on your age, offered 7-9 minutes excerpts of the A&C films. I must've had about 7 of them; along with a vinyl recording of "Who's on First?", along with many other classic radio shows.
To all, I say this; if we were lucky enough to have had this new "Stan and Ollie" film green-lighted and fulfilled in this day and age, then shouldn't it go to show that this film will be caught along the way by so many others, now that its out there streaming and available in clips or as a whole in every other venue? Funny is funny. Talent is talent. And the perfect storm of positives; being "Stan and Ollie", Steve Coogan, John C Reilly and the real Laurel and Hardy are just too infectious, engaging and lovable not to spawn newer viewers as the next year or so goes on.
http://uschefnerarchive.com/blackhawk-films-catalogs/A Blackhawk customer here also. Fond memories of thumbing through the monthly catalog for hours figuring out what one item I wanted.
I wouldn't say that this is derailing, at all.http://uschefnerarchive.com/blackhawk-films-catalogs/
Who says you can't relive your childhood. We here at HTF do it everyday.
Forgive us Ronald for derailing this thread.
ADDED: Think before clicking the link - you can get lost for hours.
http://uschefnerarchive.com/blackhawk-films-catalogs/
Who says you can't relive your childhood. We here at HTF do it everyday.
Forgive us Ronald for derailing this thread.
ADDED: Think before clicking the link - you can get lost for hours.
And you still talk to her?!!!I know what I’ll be doing tonight. Thanks for that link. I used to save all the catalogs but my mom through them away after I left the nest and before I could rescue them.
Your post on the "Lease Agreement" gave me a flashback. And so I returned to the link.The Blackhawk link is pretty cool, I opened the Oct/Nov 1979 catalog (when I would have been getting them) and instantly remembered the "Lease Agreement" for the 8 Chaplin features - good for 12 years or "life of the print", whichever is sooner - on page 21.