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The Lost Films of
Laurel and Hardy
Volume One
(1918-1929)

Contents: Hustling for Health (1919), On the Front Page (1926), Call of the Cuckoo (1927), Do Detectives Think? (1927), The Finishing Touch (1928) and Big Business (1929).

1999 Hal Roach Studios edition

The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, The Complete Collection,
Volume One (1918-1929), black & white, 124 minutes total, not rated.

Hal Roach Studios, HRS 4791, UPC 0-14381-47912-6.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, snapper case (reissued in keep case), $29.99.
DVD release date: 22 December 1998.
Country of origin: USA

We have not viewed the DVD. We have seen some of the films on laserdisc and VHS videotape, and we have seen other DVD releases in this series. Our hipshot opinion of the DVD, sight unseen, is that some films will look very good (transferred from the original 35mm negatives) and others may be passable at best, usually films transferred from the best surviving material in the possession of Hal Roach Studios. Read our review of volume three in this series for an idea of what to expect from this recent release.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.

Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other silent era SHORT COMEDY COLLECTIONS available on home video.

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