Laurel and Hardy Preservation | Interview with Scott MacQueen
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2024
- Scott MacQueen, former Head of Preservation at UCLA Film & Television Archive, discusses the need to save the films of Laurel and Hardy and our latest restoration project, PERFECT DAY (1929).
Learn about our ongoing Laurel and Hardy initiative: ucla.in/1OsNUbJ
The world owes you an enormous debt of thanks for preserving these. Laurel and Hardy and lets no forget the others, brought and continue to bring, so much laughter to an increasing harsh world. 👏👏👏👏
This is just wonderful information and great work!! Thank you UCLA for restoring Laurel and Hardy!
Bless these types of people.
It makes me happy knowing there are people out there doing this great work.
It is wonderful that this work is being done to preserve those great old comedies. They deserve to be rescued. I hope they can do the same work on the silent Laurel & Hardy comedies.
I always like to hear about these technical things about sound and movie recordings and this is from someone with first hand experience , not just speculation from someone making a video.
Watching this again really makes me interested in collecting Laurel and Hardy: The Definitive Restorations Blu-ray.
Hopefully, there'll be more restored Laurel and Hardy shorts in the future.
i love lauerl & hardy my dad show me those guy .when im having a bad day i watch them on my dvd
Wonderful remastering. Shame they couldn't do the same with the sound on this.
But did they save the silent versions too? My Laurel and Hardy book, published in the early 1970s, has said of their movies; Unaccustomed As We Are, Men of War, and The Perfect Day - when they were new , they were made into silent movies with limited sound versions …
Years ago, on channel 28, it was only shown once - they showed then the silent version of Men of War (1929) and I liked it better than the sound version … 😊
I'm building a time machine so I can go back and get the original negatives so we can digitize them.
In the past, I'd always wondered why the prints of L&H and other early 30s Roach films looked so much rougher than the same era's films from other studios.
Just to pick you up on one minor point and frankly it’s no big deal. Greatest American comedy team, one of them is British. Perhaps you meant American cinema. I would say the Greatest comedy ever and it’s brilliant that such care is going into preserving them for future generations.
Are they stil restoring more movies?
Is there a list anywhere of what restorations have been completed, and which are ongoing? Also, is there a blog or record of the work done on each specific title? I'd love for these to be released on bluray so what was almost lost forever can be owned en mas.
Why wasnt a perfect day on the new bluray box set?
I find this process absolutely fascinating and how they can rescue films from almost dust is nothing short of AMAZING!! I wonder how many Laurel & Hardy classics have been lost forever due to TOTAL IDIOTS!! not storing them or handling them correctly?
Il faut savoir que sur 106 films de laurel et hardy 2 films sont perdus hats off de 1927 et rogue song le chant du bandit de 1935 aurait été perdu par apport au procédé de mise en couleur ne serai pas conservé mais les séquences avec laurel et hardy ont été récupérés avec les couleurs trés endommagé mais ont peut voir ces scènes et la bandes sonore existe agrémenté de photos et de séquences. Sinon aujourd'hui en 2022 ont peut voir l intégrale de leurs films avec de très bonnes copies ou certains ont été retirés avec les négatifs originaux ou de contretipes ou de copie nitrates . Enfin l oeuvre de laurel et hardy peut être vu dans son intégralité en DVD a partir de copie 16mm ou 35mm.
You try to get out of the back seat of a Model T with a bandaged up foot, and you'll be swearing too! Ha ha!
Where is the sound? No dialogue.
Great interview poor audio :(
Laurel and Hardy are suffering the same fate as Doctor who Oh No!
@3:45 MacQueen states that for the first 1 minute Edgar Kennedy is out of frame. This is not true. He is only out of frame for about 15 seconds.
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It appears filmed this way as the camera pulls back and pans left to show him. Also, how would MacQueen know that Kennedy was cut off from view for a minute if the opening to the camera negative was no longer in viewable condition?
At 3:43 he shows an example, before and after restoration. He is referring to the negative master copy which has more film information on the left hand side. When they get transferred to print with the audio systems he mentioned they lost some of the frame on the left hand side.
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