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Use of these films is limited to non­ theatrical and home exhibition by direct projection only; all other uses, including stock shot, home video, television and theatrical exhibition, are reserved. Most of these films ere copyrighted in their entirety or to the extent of special contents or contain registered characters or trademarks. "Blackhawk Films· is a registered trademark of Playboy Publishing Group. 5. Hal Roach productions marked with an asterisk may be shipped only to destinations in the United States, its territories and possessions, to U.S. Government personnel at APO and FPO addresses, and to the Dominion of Canada. Eastern Hemisphere rights in Hal Roach productions are controlled exclusively by Cinema­ tografische Comen-Anstalt and are reserved. Thi B4:c.l}.md rums tolltdi4ti is oo,IU/d CNi cn/aJag ronttll!.I arr a,pyrig!lt 01m by F'um Fmutalion Ai.iocialts Stan Laurel &Olfrer Hardy CONTENTS PARDON US * (1931) $395 Category Page Animated Classics ......................... BB Stan and Ollie make "home brew" during Prohibition and by mistake try to sell Charley Chase ................................ AA their wares to a policeman! The boys wind up in jail with Charlie Hall and Walter Documentary Classics ................... BB Long, under the care of prison teacher James Finlayson, guard Tiny Sanford and Index by Category ........................ DD-II warden Wilfred Lucas. L&H escape in blackface but get caught when they try Laurel and Hardy ......................... Z-AA fLxfog the warden's car! (56 minutes) "Our Gang" ..................................... AA Kickelodeon Years ...................... BB-CC Produced by the Hal Roach Studios Teens and Twenties ................... CC-DD • Restricted to L".S. and Canada z --------------------- LAUREL & HARDY (CONTINUED) OUR GANG ----- HABEAS CORPUS * OUR GANG FOLLIES OF 1938 (1929) S160 $160 The boys are hired by crazy Professor Padilla to rob a cadaver for his The very last two-reeler to s1ar the Little Rascals, this amazingly experiments. Stan is leery of this assignment. "Don't you think the elaborate Hal Roach production is a take-off of the swing musicals Professor is a trifle cuckoo?· he asks. "He is as sound mentally as you other studios were offering. Impresario $panky is producing a big or 1,· assures Ollie. Having set off, they don't know that the police show featuring Alfalfa, ·JGng of the Crooners,• but Alfalfa appar­ have taken the Professor off to the nut house. Our would-be ghouls ently knows his limitations cs a crooner, and mistakenly opts for find the oemetery"baunted" but afteramusing blunders, the dauntless opera, much to the dismay of the rest of the Gang. Large sets and duo get their corpse - although rumors of his death have been lavish production numbers co nbine to make this uniquely polished greatly exaggerated! The added music and effects are of later vintage ·0ur Gang• a memorable comedy pleasure. (21 minutes) but enhance the film; print quality is outstanding; original main titles restored. (21 minutes) THEIR PURPLE MOMENT * (1928) $160 Stan and Ollie have hidden S2 from their wives out ofeach paycheck, andnowsetouttospendtheirhoardonalittleman-to-manfunatthe bowling alley. En route they pass the Pink Pup cafe where they are suckeredintoposingassugardaddiesforacouploofstood-updames, and after big-ticket splurges, discover they have no money at nil. The incidents are side-splitting but the greatest comedy is in close-ups of Stan's face asvisionsofwhathecando andofwhatwillhappen to him flicker across that part of his head where his brain should be. (23 THE AWFUL TOOTH * minutes, silent) (1938) $85 Alfalfa and his gang show up ut the dentist's office to get all their THEY GO BOOM * teeth pulled. Why? So that the tooth fairy will leave them enough (1929) $160 money to buy a catcher's mitt. The wise dentist spares no effort as he gets a crowbar and sledge hammer to teach them a lesson. (11 Ollie has a cold nnd Stan's taking care of him, waiting on him hand minutes) and foot. This single situation is meticulously expanded until their one room is practically demolished, landlord Charlie Hall is at the ---------------------- end of his rope, and the audience has laughed uproariously for 21 CHARI.BY CHASE minutes. MOVIENIGHT * STAN LAUREL (1929) $160 It seems Chorley Chase's family goes to the movies every Monday WEST OF HOT DOG evening. Mrs. Chase's brother, Spec O'Donnell, who is old enough to (1924) $160 go to college (were he smart eno Jgh), dons knickers and gets in line early as a kid. Finally inside the theater, they have trouble finding Stan Laurel gives comic treatment to the old saw of an Eastern dude scats. Once seated, Edith gets hi.:cups and her father has to make his who inherits Westem property. Stan and Bad Mike, Hot Dog's local way out and back across a long row of absorbed patrons to bring a villain, are rival contenders for the same bequest. Bad Mike, played glass of water. Then Charley gets the hiccups himself. .. then he wins by Lew Meehan, spends the two reels trying to do Stan in, but instead a live goose in the prize drawing ..then the goose gets loose and flies he mistakenly wipes outhisown gang, one man at a time. Commended about thetheatcr.. .In The Comic Mind, GeraldMastcalls this Chase's by the sheriff and no longer a tenderfoot, Stan leaves town throwing best comedy, no small praise. (1 9 minutes at 24 fps, silent) the bull by the tail! (21 minutes at 24 fps, silent) SKIP THEMALOO * OLIVER HARDY @:) (1931) $160 ONE TOO MANY Off the boat from England, Duke Chase (Charley) is to visit wealthy Dell Henderson's family, but det-?rmined to "disgusi- his wife with (1916) $85 royalty, Dell bas the chauffeur vaylay the Duke, then mistakenly hires Charley as a stand-in. "It'll be a lark!• says Charley. "My boy, One of the only surviving -Plump and Runi- comedies with Oliver it will be anea,gle!" says Dell. Con\'inced Dukes are a silly lot, Dell has Hardy and Billy Ruge, made in Jacksonville, Florida for Vim. It's Charley sport a monocle and act like Claude Allister, but thanks to described in detail byJohn McCabe in Babe: The Life ofOliuer Hardy societyreporterGale Henry, Char ,ey explains to daughterJacqueline (1989), in part as follows: "Action had to be fast-paced, story line Wells what's really going on. The.• teach Dell a lesson with a game of quintessential, but it is amazing how much action these early films "skip the mwoo· and a pie in the face. Only experienced slapstick carried... At times in the film Babe's physical dexterity comedians need apply for such work, and this troupe pulls off the astounds ... Chaplin oould not have done it as well: (15 minutes at 18 silliness with such panache that i .'s really quite funny! (20 minutes) fps, silent) AA A U TUMt,; 1992 SUPPLEMENT ANIMATED CLASSICS MANHATTAN MEDLEY ------------ (1932) $85 @ THUMBELINA * Clearly inspired by Ruttmann's Berlin, this shorter but similar (1953) $85 treatment of New York was obviously a labor of great love for its anonymous director. The Fox Film production traces life on the A silhouette film designed and animated by Lotte Reiniger which island from early.morn until late at night, finding in the landmarks, exhibits this famous artist at the peak of her form. Hans Christian the ethnic pockets and the business mainstream of the city all the Andersen's adventures of a tiny girl who grew from the heart of a flavor of this colorful metropolis as it was sixty years ago. Early flower afford Ms. Reiniger the chance to animate whimsical frog, thirties nostalgia is also evoked by Louis de Francesco's fine original fish, bird, mouse, mole and even beetle against exquisitely shaded score. (11 minutes) backgrounds. Music by Freddie Phillips; narration in English, frog and sparrow. It will leave you smiling! (11 minutes) A PROPOS DE NICE * @ CLAY, OR THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES@ (1930) $175 u~ $85 Jean Vigo's first film, a highly personal "point of view documentary about Nice (a resort and gambling city on the French Riviera) made A stunningly imaginative, light-hearted gloss on evolution from in collaboration ,vith cinematographer Boris Kaufman. At the time primordial ooze to modern man in 8 minutes of clay animation by an ·msignificant succes d'estime, • it has since gained recognition as Eliot Noyes, Jr. With a sweet jaz.z score by the Sammy Saltonstall the "first(though least)masterpiece· of the director of Zerodeconduite Quartet and without a spoken word, the film suggests the develop­ and L'Atalante. Critics now recognize it as "a densely realized work ment of complex life forms, adaptation and mutation, and the food which resists generalizations ... and in a difficult genre... that of the chain.