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You’re Darn
Tootin’
(1928)
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This short comedy, directed by Edgar Kennedy, stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, with Otto Lederer, Agnes Steele, Christian Frank, Chet Brandenberg, Rolfe Sedan, Monty O’Grady and George Rowe.
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 Flicker Alley
2024 Blu-ray Disc edition
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two (1927-1929), black & white, 212 minutes total, not rated, including You’re Darn Tootin’ (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Flicker Alley, FA0086, UPC 6-17311-68869-0.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Regions ABC Blu-ray Disc (two BDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at ? Mbps average video bit rate; LPCM 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, optional English language SDH subtitles; chapter stops; 36-page insert booklet; standard two-disc BD keepcase; $49.95.
Release date: 29 October 2024 (advance), 22 November 2024 (street).
Country of origin: USA
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This Blu-ray Disc edition has been mastered from archival and private collection prints. The collection has been curated by L&H historians Randy Skretvedt, Richard W. Bann, Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange.
The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed by Neil Brand, Antonio Coppola and Andrea Benz. Optional musical scores include the 1928 Vitaphone soundtracks for Habeas Corpus and We Faw Down.
Supplementary material includes audio commentaries for each film by L&H historians Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Bann; audio interviews conducted by Randy Skretvedt with Anita Garvin, Thomas Benton Roberts and Hal Roach; a 1959 interview with Stan Laurel; “Laurel & Hardy On-Location in Year Two,” a video essay by historian John Bengtson on selected location exteriors — always fascinating information and worth many viewings; a rare one-reel fragment of the Charley Chase short Now I’ll Tell One (1927); “George Mann’s Home Movies” of the Roach studio; an image gallery containing original publicity materials, press reviews and rare production stills; and a 36-page insert booklet featuring an introduction to the collection by Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange, an article on the Roach studio actors and crew by Sara Imogen Smith, an essay on the development of the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system in 1928; and notes on each film by historian Randy Skretvedt.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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Regions ABC Blu-ray Disc edition is available directly from . . .
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 Hal Roach Studios
2000 DVD edition
The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, The Complete Collection, Volume Nine (1926-1928), black & white, color-tinted black & white and color-toned black & white, 120 minutes total, not rated, including You’re Darn Tootin’ (1928), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated.
Hal Roach Studios, distributed by Image Entertainment,
HRS 4799, UPC 0-14381-47992-8.
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 4.8 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 256 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles (optional French intertitles for Why Girls Love Sailors), no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; snapper DVD case (reissued in standard DVD keepcase); $29.99.
Release date: 3 October 2000.
Country of origin: USA •
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This DVD edition has been mastered from source prints that range from 16mm to 8mm reduction prints with maybe a 35mm print tossed in there. Our hipshot opinion of the DVD is that some films look very good and others are passable at best. Some of these films look better in more recent home video editions.
If you must have a DVD copy, this is an OK but not great edition.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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Other silent era LAUREL AND HARDY films available on home video.
Other silent era STAN LAUREL films available on home video.
Other silent era OLIVER HARDY films available on home video.
Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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