When I was young, in days before I started to really watch television, I would take note, of special occations, in which my father would take my brother and I to the old movie night at the library, we loved to watch those films with him, in the basement of the library, on a large projector, with rarely a large crowd, and always in good humor. One of the most common film that we came across was laurel and hard, I saw quite a few of these episodes, at the library movies, im pretty sure on most occations they would show a laurel and hardy before they would show the feature film, unless the theme for the evening was infact laurel and hardy, in which we were all in for a goofy treat.
When I saw dick van dyke’s impression, I was reminded of the fact that they are not always silent films, laurel and hardy must have bridged the gap into sound, but I don’t remember them as that, as bridging the gap, as even talking, they were slap stick genius, that can have film footage full of white in imperfections, and still portray a flever idea. It’s not that hard to watch folks, maybe, and most unfortunately you don’t have the same fond memories attaching you to the subject in hand, but if you are bored, or if you happen to wonder what a master piece was like, in the 1930’s then you should poke your little eyeball at some of this stupendousy.
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