Nitrateville Correction Dept: Our Gang MGM Silents
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 9:10 pm
Today over at Nitwitvile, Bob Lipton wrote:
"Hal Roach's silent shorts distributed by MGM are hard to find because they were never released to either the home market like his earlier movies, distributed by Pathe, but Crazy House (1928) turned up in a nicely tinted copy derived from the French release."
Actually, the surviving Our Gang MGM silents were pretty much all put out by Blackhawk from the 1960's though the 80's, and there were Interstate Television prints floating around the collectors market from the 1950's, so certainly those shorts were on the home market for quite some time, including CRAZY HOUSE. Never found them particularly hard to find.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
"Hal Roach's silent shorts distributed by MGM are hard to find because they were never released to either the home market like his earlier movies, distributed by Pathe, but Crazy House (1928) turned up in a nicely tinted copy derived from the French release."
Actually, the surviving Our Gang MGM silents were pretty much all put out by Blackhawk from the 1960's though the 80's, and there were Interstate Television prints floating around the collectors market from the 1950's, so certainly those shorts were on the home market for quite some time, including CRAZY HOUSE. Never found them particularly hard to find.
RICHARD M ROBERTS