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The Lost Films of
Laurel and Hardy
Volume Eight
(1923-1928)

Contents: Scorching Sands (1923), The Second Hundred Years (1927), Slipping Wives (1927), From Soup to Nuts (1928), Should Tall Men Marry? (1928) and Two Tars (1928).

Hal Roach Studios
2000 DVD edition

The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, The Complete Collection, Volume Eight (1923-1928), black & white, 119 minutes total, not rated, including Scorching Sands (1923), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The Second Hundred Years (1927), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, Slipping Wives (1927), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, From Soup to Nuts (1928), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, Should Tall Men Marry? (1928), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, and Two Tars (1928), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated.

Hal Roach Studios, distributed by Image Entertainment,
HRS 4798, UPC 0-14381-47982-9.
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 4.4 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, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; snapper DVD case (reissued in standard DVD keepcase); $29.99.
Release date: 3 October 2000.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD collection has been mastered from 35mm prints. We have seen some of the films on laserdisc and VHS videotape, and we have seen other DVD releases in this series. Our hipshot opinion of the DVD, sight unseen, is that some films will look very good (transferred from the original 35mm negatives) and others may be passable at best, usually films transferred from the best surviving material in the possession of Hal Roach Studios.

Read our review of volume three in this series for an idea of what to expect from this release.

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