Every frame is meticulously supported by great music. The music for the collection is new and contributed by talents like Serge Bromberg, Ben Model, Phil Carli, Neil Brand and others.
These restorations begin with exhaustive searches the world over to find copies to scan before the technical work can even begin. I can go on and on about how special it is to watch the Laurel or Hardy: Early Films of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy and thank all involved in the new 2K & 4K restorations by the geniuses at Lobster Films. While the Laurel or Hardy blu-ray set offers movies of them alone, prior to their working together, fans of the duo will delight in recognizing familiar gags and sequences, which Laurel in particular, recycled in later pictures. In 1927, Leo McCarey, then working at Roach, thought the boys’ contrasting styles would work well together. It was not until each joined Hal Roach Studios, however, that their work together began. Laurel and Hardy appeared together for the first time by chance in Jess Robbins’ The Lucky Dog (1921), one hundred years ago.
I have noted the complete list of movies below. Hotaling, Will Louis, Charles Parrott, Larry Semon, George Jeske, Ralph Cedar, and Stan Laurel. There are several gems in the collection, however, from directors like Arthur D. Anderson’s The Egg (1922), which I watched three times. I particularly enjoyed gags in Gilbert M. While Babe Hardy is clearly (to me) the better actor as illustrated in Hungry Hearts (1916), it is Laurel’s moments of genius that made me laugh aloud. It is fascinating to see their individual styles evolve through the years as you watch these two-reelers, and to see how different they were from each other – Laurel is broad in his comedic delivery and Hardy more introspective, which makes sense given one came from the stage and the other honed his talents in moving pictures. Laurel or Hardy includes films of Stan Laurel spanning from 1918 to 1925 and Babe (Oliver) Hardy’s from 1914 to 1926.
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