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Arthur Stanley Jefferson for a time understudied Chaplin in England and the US. Meanwhile Oliver Norvell Hardy was a serviceable role player in comedies and melodramas, yet neither had reached the status of movie star. It became clear upon their teaming up that their contradictory physiques and personalities complimented each other perfectly. The team would go on to do many films together reaching wide acclaim, and eventually becoming nearly unanimously considered by film critics, scholars, and movie fans alike, the funniest comedy duo in film history. transfers in a variety of aspect ratios hovering around Academy Ratio. Assessment of the video quality of three titles linked to above can be Laurel & Hardy - The Definitive Restorations Blu-ray delivers great video and decent audio in this exceptional Blu-ray release Clearly Stan Laurel was far from well when making this film. In fact it should have been completed in twelve weeks but actually took twelve months due to several issues. Oliver Hardy also had health issues and had put on a considerable amount of weight. Yet despite all of these problems there are genuinely funny moments when the pair are on screen together. Castthat's basically it for Region A consumers, perhaps unbelievably. (It does look like some other regions have their own peculiar releases, many You are probably aware by now that I’m a big Laurel and Hardy and my dream is to see all of the films fully restored and released on to Blu-ray. Work is on going on some of the films whilst there are already several available on Blu-ray such as The Flying Deuces and March of the Wooden Soldiers. What is the last Laurel and Hardy film? Well thankfully the BFI have just released it on to blu-ray. Atoll K (1951) aka Utopia is indeed the duos final screen appearance. So without further ado here’s my Atoll K blu-ray review. situation with this new collection which aggregates two of Laurel and Hardy's best remembered "feature length" offerings (still on the short side I'll allow readers to wonder through this release at their own speed. It's not a sit down - one and done situation. the best I've personally seen any of these Laurel and Hardy pieces look. Clarity is improved across the board from previous releases that have been in

Label description: Very few original negatives of the silent films of Laurel and Hardy survive, and the available elements scattered throughout the world are always mediocre or unwatchable. It took three years to gather all the surviving prints of these shorts, compare them shot by shot and give them the best digital restoration possible. Today, these invisible films look as young as they did 95 years ago. A world premiere for all the Laurel and Hardy fans. This really is an exceptional set of extras and one that every Laurel and Hardy fans will surely love. The BFI really has delivered the perfect Blu-ray release and one fans can be proud to add to their collection. Extraswill say that some of the shorts not bearing the imprimatur of UCLA in particular can have a softer, more filtered, look, and things can look a bit It's even a bigger deal that whatever was done to make the films prettier was done nicely, and the films still look like film. All of the films in this collection have been given an instrumental score by various composers including Eric Le Guen, Andrew Simpson, Antonio Coppola, Serge Bromberg, Ben Model, Neil Brand, Donald Sosin, and Phil Carli. The scores are presented in DTS-HD MA 2.0 stereo, and with either Dolby Surround or DTS Neural:X engaged, are fairly immersive, giving the feeling of being in an old movie house with a piano player. compared to many contemporary outings) along with a glut of shorts, including a reconstructed version of The Battle of the Century,