Hello Laurel & Hardy friends,
Our next film show will be on Wednesday, Nowonder 16th, 7.30pm till 10.30pm at the THE BRIDGE INN on Longmoor Lane, Sandiacre NG10 5LW – in the outside function room as per usual.
All are welcome and entry is free.
This month I thought we might have a look at some of the skirmishes that the Boys had with the Law and at some of the gags, scenes and films that were reworked into later films. Stan, on record, has owned up to admitting his guilt that whenever they were short of ideas against pressing timescales to finish a film , they would look back to previous work and rework the product. In his defence, they wouldn’t just copy it but work out what was good about it and what could be better and rework it to fit the overall film context and of course, in a lot of cases, they were thinking on how they could turn a silent into a talkie.
Our feature film will be the prison film “Pardon Us” (1931)” and I’ll show two earlier short films which in part has similar scenes or plot lines. I’ll also be showing a short 10 min documentary by Gary Winstanley on the remaking of Duck Soup into Another Fine mess.
We will also be continuing our series of short cartoons from the 1930s. This month we intend to show “Looney Balloonists” a 5 min Columbia cartoon from Septober, 1936.
We will have the usual raffle and any donations are always gratefully accepted.
Talking Pictures TV is still presenting L&H films – which is brilliant – but unfortunately you might have to get up very early in the morning to catch a (Laurel&) Hardy. see below.
Provisionally our Christmas meeting was planned for December 21st . I’ve not finalised that date as yet but it is very probable we might have to move it a week earlier to December 14th. At our Christmas meet we will show our usual fayre of Christmas short films. I’m hoping that we will be able to have a mini supper buffet of a few sandwiches, snacks, mince pies, etc.
Hopefully, we’ll see you all on Wednesday. Please bring friends and family – all are welcome.
Fraternally Yours,
Dave T
(Grand Sheikh – Nottingham Beau Hunks tent)
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