Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years - 1929 Limited Collector´s Edition (2000 copies)

Product detailed description

The package includes 2 Blu-ray discs and collectible items*

• Short films in Full HD (new master)
• Aspect ratio 1.33:1
• Without original audio – only musical accompaniment and English intertitles
• Short films: Liberty, Wrong Again, That's My Wife, Big Business, Unaccustomed as We Are (silent version), Double Whoopee, Berth Marks (silent version), Bacon Grabbers and Angora Love (silent version)

Special Features

• New audio commentaries on Liberty and Berth Marks by film writer Chris Seguin and Kyp Harness, author of The Art of Laurel & Hardy: Graceful Calamity in the Films
• New audio commentaries on Double Whoopee, Unaccustomed As We Are and Wrong Again by film historian and writer David Kalat
• New audio commentaries on Big Business and Angora Love by silent film accompanist Neil Brand
• New audio commentaries on That’s My Wife and Bacon Grabbers by Glenn Mitchell, author of The Laurel and Hardy Encyclopedia
• New documentary by David Cairns and Fiona Watson
• Alternate musical scores on selected short films including Robert Youngson’s score for Liberty, newly restored by Stephen C. Horne
• Alternate sound version of Unaccustomed As We Are
• Alternate dubbed version of Double Whoopee
• 1929 sound shorts They Go Boom! and The Hoose-Gow
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (excerpt)
• Crazy Heights – alternate Super 8 version of Liberty
• Super 8 versions of Big Business, Double Whoopee and Angora Love
• Stills galleries

*Collectible items

• Limited edition (2000 copies)
• Limited edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Scott Saslow
• Limited edition collector’s booklet featuring new notes on each film by writer and comedian Paul Merton and a new essay on frequent Laurel and Hardy collaborator James Finlayson by silent cinema expert Chris Grosvenor