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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2017 20:23:51 GMT -5
"Shivering Shakespeares" is on tap for next Saturday.
"Dogs is Dogs" is scheduled for February 5. Surprising they decided to air that one, since there was a spanking scene involved, unless it got edited out for broadcast.
The remaining shorts for those weeks are repeats. I am guessing they may have exhausted all of the available ten-minute shorts, and only a few extended shorts remain to be aired?
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Post by rascalstooge on Jan 23, 2017 14:51:54 GMT -5
Free Eats, I believe is from 1932.
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Post by marktheshark on Jul 17, 2017 9:18:27 GMT -5
I have been reading this with moderate interest. I have not tuned in, and haven't really been paying attention, since I have all the shorts on DVD. But are you folks saying that these shorts are all (or for the most part) uncut? Are the King World edits a thing of the past? I know Paramount television is handling the distribution now, and has for some time.
I remember seeing them on Me-TV before, years back when they were just a local Chicago channel. At that time they seemed to be the colorized versions with the color turned off. They were shown colorized for the first weekend they ran (this was around 2005-ish) but after that they were B&W -- but once in a while I would see a credit at the end of a short with a copyright for the "color version" even though it was black and white.
I noticed an occasional short which had overdubbed music, some of which were badly done, obscuring dialogue etc.
They tended to have original titles which used the names "Our Gang" and "Hal Roach's Rascals," but there were a few with altered titles, not like the old King World ones, but I remember seeing a couple with the late 1930s titles (with the little pictures of various kids) and it said "Hal Roach Studios Presents The Little Rascals." The "Hal Roach Studios" reminded me of the logo of the former video company that used that name -- they released a bunch of public domain movies and later released the Laurel & Hardy silent shorts.
Does this sound like what they have been running?
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Post by Paul F. on Jul 17, 2017 11:28:54 GMT -5
I have noticed that they seem to be using the restored prints with the original titles. Films such as THE LUCKY CORNER have footage that I never saw on television before -- Buckwheat was just about cut out of the television prints of THE LUCKY CORNER, but now he is back in. I have heard that in SCHOOL'S OUT, the "Blackface and Minstrel Joke Book" that Bonedust has with him has the offending words blurred. DIVOT DIGGERS has two music scores playing at the same time, for some reason, and it sounds terrible.
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Post by myhomeo on Jul 31, 2017 16:08:13 GMT -5
Yeah, I've noticed it too. As near as I can tell, they're not editing the shorts, at least not for content, but they're optically blurring stuff they're concerned about. In 'For Pete's Sake,' for example, four-year-old Spanky's bare bum was obscured. (When I used to watch in the Seventies, that scene was dropped entirely.)
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Post by mtw12055 on Aug 1, 2017 13:28:48 GMT -5
Supposedly, MeTV ran a colorized BOUNCING BABIES recently. Didn't even know there was a colorized version out there.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 17:44:45 GMT -5
So I wonder if this is the beginning of a series of colorized Little Rascals shorts airing on MeTV?
I also wonder if MeTV's license to air The Little Rascals may only be for one year? We'll probably find out come September.
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Post by mtw12055 on Aug 2, 2017 19:33:42 GMT -5
So I wonder if this is the beginning of a series of colorized Little Rascals shorts airing on MeTV? It was likely a one time mistake.
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