 Flicker Alley
2024 Blu-ray Disc edition
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two (1927-1929), black & white, 212 minutes total, not rated, including Eve’s Love Letters (1927), Now I’ll Tell One (1927) [fragments], Early to Bed (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Finishing Touch (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, From Soup to Nuts (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Galloping Ghosts (1928) [fragments], black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Habeas Corpus (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Leave ’em Laughing (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Should Married Men Go Home? (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Their Purple Moment (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Two Tars (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, We Faw Down (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, You’re Darn Tootin’ (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and A Pair of Tights (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Flicker Alley, unknown catalog number, UPC 6-17311-68869-0.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Regions ABC Blu-ray Discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at ? Mbps average video bit rate; LPCM 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, optional English language SDH subtitles; chapter stops; insert booklet; standard two-disc BD keepcase; $49.95.
Release date: 29 October 2024 (advance), 22 November 2024 (street).
Country of origin: USA
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This Blu-ray Disc collection has been mastered from archival and private collection prints. The collection has been curated by L&H historians Randy Skretvedt, Richard W. Bann, Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange.
The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed by Neil Brand, Antonio Coppola and Andrea Benz. Optional musical scores include the 1928 Vitaphone soundtracks for Habeas Corpus and We Faw Down.
Supplementary material includes audio commentaries for each film by L&H historians Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Bann; audio interviews conducted by Randy Skretvedt with Anita Garvin, Thomas Benton Roberts and Hal Roach; a 1959 interview with Stan Laurel; “Laurel & Hardy On-Location in Year Two,” a video essay by historian John Bengtson on selected location exteriors — always fascinating information and worth many viewings; a rare one-reel fragment of the Charley Chase short Now I’ll Tell One (1927); “George Mann’s Home Movies” of the Roach studio; an image gallery containing original publicity materials, press reviews and rare production stills; and an insert booklet featuring an introduction to the collection by Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange, an article on the Roach studio actors and crew by Sara Imogen Smith, an essay on the development of the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system in 1928; and notes on each film by historian Randy Skretvedt.
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