Love the Laurel Hardy stuff, seriesly.. Thanks for the heads up.
Posted on 07/30/2004 12:42:52 PM PDT by Red Badger
Laurel and Hardy's German film found
Rare footage of comedy legends Laurel and Hardy performing in German has been found by German archivists.
Workers from the Munich Film Museum were said to have been stunned when they discovered the treasure in the Moscow Film Archive.
The film, 'Spuk um Mitternacht', or 'Spook at Midnight', was the first German language film made by Laurel and Hardy. It premiered in Berlin on May 21, 1931, according to the City of Munich.
As well as including scenes from the pair's two short films 'Berth Marks' and 'The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case' it also shows specific German gags and jibes.
The 40 minute raw footage will be shown for the first time at the Summer Cinema in Bonn on August 14.
Love the Laurel Hardy stuff, seriesly.. Thanks for the heads up.
This is another fine mess you've gotten us into, John....
I find the timing of that photo suspicious.
HOW COOL IS THIS??? Now...when the discover a sequel to the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup, I'll be REALLY ecstatic! Talk about your antiwar films! :-D
I concur .. ME,too!
I thought it rather interesting that it was found in the MOSCOW Film Archives........Stalin must have been a fan.....
My beeber went off too!
"shows specific German gags and jibes"
1931 Germany? I hate to think what German Gags from the '30s might be
Eugenics? or invading Poland?
Post #2: OUTSTANDING! Some of the funniest, most creative people in America are in Free Republic.
But I wholeheartedly agree, FR is loaded with lots of funny, creative folks.
"Schon WIEDER hast's schön verpfutscht, Stanley."
Can anyone correct my German? :)
Jetzt geht das schon wieder los!
Ah, the power... of BEEBER!
No, you get an A this time.
The person who found the film deserves a laurel, and hardy handshake.
Commies stole it after WWII.
There's probably a lot more stuff they stole laying around some where in Moscow.
The Soviets stole the stuff from the Nazis that the Nazis stole from the Jews, and everyone else.......Artwork was on their main "shopping" list.....
The Soviets stole the stuff from the Nazis that the Nazis stole from the Jews, and everyone else.......Artwork was on their main "shopping" list.....
They've been discussing this on a Laurel and Hardy forum I'm a member of. Would love to see the film sometime.
Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. Observe
these examples:
Freundschaftsbezeigungen.
Dilettantenaufdringlichkeiten.
Stadtverordnetenversammlungen.
These things are not words, they are alphabetical processions.
Generalstaatsverordnetenversammlungen.
Alterthumswissenschaften.
Kinderbewahrungsanstalten.
Unabhaengigkeitserklaerungen.
Wiedererstellungbestrebungen.
Waffenstillstandsunterhandlungen.
Of course when one of these grand mountain ranges goes stretching across the printed page, it adorns and ennobles that literary landscape but at the same time it is a great distress to the new student, for it blocks up his way; ... "
- "That Awful German Language," Appendix D of A Tramp Abroad-Mark Twain
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.
Mark Twain - "That Awful German Language," Appendix D of A Tramp Abroad
German Ping... This is kind of cool...
"Then its war!"
All: To war, to war, to war we’re gonna go!
(Firefly, Bob, Chicolini and Pinky stand in a line and flutter their hands like a black minstrel’s act)
The Four Brothers: Oh, hi-de, hi-de, hi-de, hi-de, hi-de, hi-de-ho.
Stan traveld to the United States with?????
Ollie was related to a British Naval Officer. At the battle of Trafalgar what did Hardy do?
Several of the great Laurel and Hardy masterpieces have been lost. It's always exciting when they find something that was thought to have been gone forever.
About 20 years ago, AMC or TCM showed how L & H made their movies in several languages at the same time. They weren't "dubbed." One scene in English; repeat same scene in Spanish, then German etc. BIG international audience.
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