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The
Big Town

(1925)

 

In 1922, Hal Roach created a new series of comedy short films starring a group of young kids who, although they were officially named Hal Roach’s Rascals, quickly became popularly known by the title of one of their earliest films, Our Gang (1922). Roach soon learned that he had tapped a gold mine, and produced far more than 100 Our Gang films from 1922 through 1938, when the rights to the series were sold to Our Gang distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The series featured a number of talented and popular child performers who inevitably grew too old to remain participants in the series and were replaced by other children. Fans of the Our Gang series grew to love Mickey, Jackie, Joe, Farina, Mary, Wheezer and others, and later grew attached to Spanky, Alfalfa, Porky, Buckwheat, Darla and Butch in the golden era.

This early Our Gang film features Mickey, Mary, Joe, Jackie and Farina in an accidental adventure to the Big Apple.

Carl Bennett

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2004 DVD edition

Square Shoulders (1929), black & white, 61 minutes, not rated, with The Big Town (1925), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated.

Reelclassicdvd.com, no catalog number, UPC 7-62185-05252-5.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; no chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $20.00.
Release date: 2004.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a good 16mm reduction print, which is quite flat in a narrow range of greytones.

The film is accompanied by vintage jazz recordings.

 
This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from Reelclassicdvd.com through . . .
Other OUR GANG films of the silent era available on home video.

Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

 
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