Laughsmith- expects Our Gang set out soon!

[Mark]

Someone shouted out to Laughsmith asking-

Ya see,

Ever since your stupendously wonderful Arbuckle set landed in my collection,
I've been hankering for more, and apparently there's a second set in the
works, but it's been awhile since your site has been updated...in fact, I
may be blind, but I don't even see a mention of Industrial Strength Keaton
on it! Can you give us AMS'ers some inside info on what you have in store
for the near (and distant) future? Will we see Arbuckle II: Roscoe's
Revenge this year? Will it contain FATTY AND MABEL ADRIFT, by all accounts
an excellent film which I have yet to see? How about THE COOK and RECKLESS
ROMEO? Yes, I know, they've been released already, but it would be nice to
have these rediscovered gems included in a more comprehensive set. Can I
pathetically grovel and beg you to restore MOONSHINE by melding the
fragments of good-quality 35mm footage with the inferior 16mm footage so at
least it's complete and as good quality as possible? Ditto with OUT WEST,
which, even in the "Best Arbuckle/Keaton" set is still missing some bits
which could be spliced in from the print featured in the other set? Are you
still planning on going ahead with the Mabel Normand set? The Chaplin
imitators set? Is there anything else on your slate I need to prematurely
salivate over???

And Paul from Laughsmith responded-

Indeed, the website has been sorely
neglected lo these many months --
our merry band has been otherwise
occupied with a massive amount of
comedy reconstruction work since
the release of ISK. The hazards of
being a small company.

However, fear not! We are toiling away
on several new collections which, I hope,
will set a new standard for us. More, the
new LEI website, which was supposed
to go live months ago, is finally ready.
Just need time to update everything.


I am bound from revealing details of our
current plans, but you can bet that the
Our Gang set, Mabel Normand, Arbuckle
Volume II and others will be available
before you can say "I wish that someone
would do a Lloyd Hamilton collection..."


Sit tight.


-- Paul E. Gierucki

My guess is it will be out in time for the holidays. I still don't expect it anytime before that, not that that isn't soon!

[OPT]

we can only hope it will be ready by the holidays this year

[chubby]

Any speculation as to how many silent films will be released on the Laughsmith set?

[ymymeatemup]

I don't think the contents have been finalized yet, but there should be as many as 30 films in the set - all silent and all of high quality compared to other releases.

[chubby]

Is Laughsmith the company name? Will they be region coded? Which country does Laughsmith originate in? I'm from Canada, I hope I can order that set.

[ymymeatemup]

They're based in England, but I believe the discs are to be encoded for all regions.

[rarefilms]

'Laughsmith Entertainment' are actually based in Michigan, U.S.A. I asked about the region coding as some potential buyers in Britain haven't bought their Arbuckle DVD set because of this. All players in Britain can play an NTSC DVD (The U.S. standard) but not all British players can play an NTSC DVD if it's encoded with region one. The Our Gang set will be region free. I pointed out that region codes are usually only for two companies selling the same film from different countries etc. It was the distributer that did it and not Laughsmith themselves.

Robin.

[beatnik1968]

darn it needs to come out soon
i'm very interested in the non-our gang shorts on the set
the our gang rip offs

i've finally resurfaced on this messageboard

[Mark]

Welcome back, beatnik!