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Post by jack on May 7, 2006 13:19:55 GMT -5
Hi-
I'm in the process of reacquainting myself w/ the Little Rascals and have bought a few things off Ebay- I still have my laser disc player from the 90's and just got the Our Gang LaserDisc box set from MGM.
Does anyone know if this has all of the post-Roach MGM shorts or is it just odds and ends?
Let me know, as I'm interested in acquiring a complete collection-
Thanks-
Jack
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Post by Mark on May 7, 2006 15:02:05 GMT -5
There are 52 post-Roach MGM shorts in total. The laserdisc you have has 10 of them.
The shorts on the laserdiscs are organized and broken down by the three eras in the series: 1- silents, 2- Roach talkies, 3- MGM years.
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Post by jack on May 7, 2006 15:31:15 GMT -5
Wow-
Why did MGM duplicate other things that were already out there, when they could have focused on their own ouput?
So basically 42 to go!! Any ideas where to get them?
Jack
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Post by zootmoney on May 7, 2006 15:56:19 GMT -5
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Post by Mark on May 7, 2006 16:08:56 GMT -5
Jack, you don't happen to have AmericanLife TV do you? They run all 52 shorts uncut on Saturday afternoons (2 shorts per Sat).
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Post by jack on May 13, 2006 10:23:38 GMT -5
Well I received my MGM laserdisc, and the quality is great, the sound is great, but I really think MGM missed the mark when releasing this set. Why did they release so many shorts that were already availlable? I think it would have made more sense to get the post-Roach shorts out to the public- They remain virtually unseen today (unless you are lucky enough to have AmericanLife TV, which I do not have).
Maybe TCM will have a program where they run 2 or 3 in a half hour time frame, with some insightful introductions. They seem to always do a good job, and don't they own the shorts now?
Heres hoping-
Jack
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Post by Mark on May 13, 2006 11:01:09 GMT -5
The worst part about the set is Bear Shooters, School's Out, and Our Gang Follies of 1938. Those are the most common episodes in the public domain. They probably didn't have rights to put the other Hal Roach Talking shorts on the laserdiscs but they wanted shorts spanning *all* eras, so they decided to put those three on. The included silents are widly available, but at the time of the laserdisc release some of them were hard to come by (Sundown Limited, Fourth Alarm, Monkey Business, and High Society), but even now, the quality of all these silents are almost unbeatable. The piano music is really nice too. TCM did use to play the MGM Our Gang shorts back in the day, but I didn't have TCM until several years ago.  They run them on AmericanLife TV now and you can see that Time Warner now owns them. Does TCM play anything owned by Time Warner? I think they do, but I'm not sure. |
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Post by jack on May 13, 2006 12:19:19 GMT -5
Turner Classic Movies is owned by Time Warner, as is CNN and all the Turner networks.
That's why classic MGM product like "Wizard of Oz" has the Warner's Shield before the roaring lion logo. MGM lost most of it's movie library when Turner bought it in the late 80's.
So maybe one day we'll see these shorts on TCM- General Spanky plays on TCM from time to time- All part of the same package.
Jack
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