The Little Rascals - The Restored Silents, Vol. 1

[mtw12055]

Great news, via David, producer and founder of ClassicFlix:

Scans on over 60 silent Our Gang shorts (of the surviving 88) have been performed to date and we continue to look for additional material to fill in gaps of missing footage from the scans we already have. It's a time-consuming task, but we hope to have the first release (Volume 1) likely April / May 2024.

The number of shorts for the first volume will be 8. While not in exact chronological order, we will follow a rough chronology presenting the shorts we consider HD worthy: OUR GANG (1922) through THE CHAMPEEN! (1923).

PROD#, SHORT

# 1. Our Gang - (In most complete form)
# 2. Fire Fighters
# 3. Young Sherlocks (from 16mm Kodascope)
# 4. One Terrible Day
# 6. Saturday Morning
# 7. The Big Show! (from 35mm)
# 8. The Cobbler (from 35mm)
# 9. The Champeen! (from 16mm Kodascope)

FYI - We have materials on the below shorts, but all are from VERY rough 16mm prints so we won't be including them in the main volumes. They will be made available at some point either on DVD or as a bonus feature on a future BD volume.

# 5. A Quiet Street
# 10. Boys to Board
# 12. Giants Vs. Yanks

ENJOY!

MTW Note: CF has gotten a better print of "Giants Vs. Yanks" and are scanning it to see if it will be good enough for Blu-Ray. Stay tuned.

[myhomeo]

Great! Will there be a DVD release or is it strictly Blu-Ray?

[mtw12055]

Jun 10, 2023 20:21:53 GMT -5 myhomeo said:

Great! Will there be a DVD release or is it strictly Blu-Ray?

I'm told it's up in the air for now.

That said, Blu-Ray players are quite cheap these days. This might be the perfect excuse to get one.

[completist]

I'm looking forward to this.
They did such a great job with the shorts on the centennial collection bonus disk

[tboneator64]

Things seem to have gone silent regarding the silents, of late.

[mtw12055]

Nov 26, 2023 13:05:29 GMT -5 tboneator64 said:

Things seem to have gone silent regarding the silents, of late.

The release has been moved to early next year, as I've been told.