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The
Stan Laurel
Collection
Volume 2
(1918-1926)

Contents: Huns and Hyphens (1918), Just Rambling Along (1918), Frauds and Frenzies (1918), Do You Love Your Wife? (1919), Hustling for Health (1919), The Egg (1922), Mud and Sand (1922), The Noon Whistle (1923), White Wings (1923), Under Two Jags (1923), Pick and Shovel (1923), Kill or Cure (1923), Short Orders (1923), A Man About Town (1923), Smithy (1924), Rupert of Hee-Haw (1924), A Mandarin Mix-Up (1924), Detained (1924), Somewhere in Wrong (1925), Pie-Eyed (1925) and Get ’em Young (1926).

Kino International
2008 DVD edition

The Stan Laurel Collection, Volume 2 (1918-1926), black & white, 355 minutes total, not rated, including Huns and Hyphens (1918), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, Just Rambling Along (1918), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, Frauds and Frenzies (1918), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Do You Love Your Wife? (1919), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Hustling for Health (1919), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, The Egg (1922), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Mud and Sand (1922), black & white, 29 minutes, not rated, The Noon Whistle (1923), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, White Wings (1923), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Under Two Jags (1923), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Pick and Shovel (1923), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Kill or Cure (1923), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Short Orders (1923), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, A Man About Town (1923), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Smithy (1924), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Rupert of Hee-Haw (1924), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, A Mandarin Mix-Up (1924), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Detained (1924), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, Somewhere in Wrong (1925), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Pie-Eyed (1925), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, and Get ’em Young (1926), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, K616, UPC 7-38329-06162-3.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 3 June 2008.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD collection of 21 short Stan Laurel comedies, made before his successful teaming with Oliver Hardy, features the best available editions of films that are plentiful in myriad cheap discs. The disc was produced with the assistance of Lobster Films, France, and should feature transfers from the best-available materials, both in 35mm and 16mm reduction prints.

The disc features music performed on piano by Neil Brand.

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