The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, The Complete Collection, Volume Eight(1923-1928), black & white, 129 minutes total, not rated,
including Scorching Sands (1923), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The Second Hundred Years (1927), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, Slipping Wives (1927), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, From Soup to Nuts (1928), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, Should Tall Men Marry? (1928), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, and Two Tars (1928), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated.
Hal Roach Studios, distributed by Image Entertainment,
HRS 4798, UPC 0-14381-47982-9.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0NTSC DVD disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, ? 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 DVD case (reissued in standard DVD keepcase), $29.99.
Release date: 3 October 2000.
Country of origin: USA
This DVD collection has been mastered from 35mm prints. 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 release.
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