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The Lost Films of
Laurel and Hardy
Volume Two
(1923-1929)

Contents: Oranges and Lemons (1923), Roughest Africa (1923), Sugar Daddies (1927), Early to Bed (1928), Angora Love (1929) and Double Whoopee (1929).

Hal Roach Studios
1998 DVD edition

The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, The Complete Collection, Volume Two (1923-1929), black & white, 118 minutes total, not rated, including Oranges and Lemons (1923), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Roughest Africa (1923), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Sugar Daddies (1927), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, Early to Bed (1928), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Angora Love (1929), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, and Double Whoopee (1929), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated.

Hal Roach Studios, distributed by Image Entertainment,
HRS 4792, UPC 0-14381-47922-5.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 4.4 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 320 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; snapper DVD case (reissued in standard DVD keepcase); $29.99.
Release date: 22 December 1998.
Country of origin: USA

This early DVD collection has been mastered from 35mm print elements. We have seen some of the films on laserdisc and VHS videotape, and we have seen other DVD releases in this series. Our hipshot opinion of the DVD is that some films will look very good (transferred from the original 35mm negatives) and others may be passable at best, usually films transferred from the best surviving material in the possession of Hal Roach Studios.

Read our review of volume three in this series for an idea of what to expect from this release.

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