While Walton are a pain in the neck for their edits, the quality of some of their prints are actually very good.īlockheads, 20 x 600, (orignally 3 x 400) Like many in the hobby we have a decent amount of the boys comedies and all from various companies Walton, Blackhawk and Derann. What i would like to do now is add a single L&H to our 16mm collection. Having a read through the other channel it has reminded me that we have not viewed our L&H films for some time, many titles for over fiver years, so we will now begin to go through these and view them. To date, we have 27 L & H titles in our 8mm collection which does include the rare 400ft std 8 version of Midnight patrol, most i believe are the 200ft version, from memory, i think ours is the Blackhawk version. I would be interested to find out what the Blackhawk version is like. Also, i was very dissapointed that there was two short snips on the super 8 version, it was as if the std 8 was complete but the super 8 was, (as just about all Walton titles), slightly edited.
The STD 8 version was pin sharpe and the contrast was excellent with a nice bright clear image. To my disappointment at the first viewing there was two things, while the titles were in there and we were correct at no footage missing, the image was not as good as the standard 8 version, both sharpness and contrast were actually nothing more than average. I think the first one we ever had in our own collection was a standard 8, 50ft silent from Beau Hunks, it was actually quite well put together bearing in mind it was only around 4 minutes long.Įventually my Brother moved on to sound we ended up with two Walton standard 8 400ft shorts, one was the Music box which was the abridged version, the other was Live Ghost, one of our favourites.Ī few years ago i found a super 8 Walton Live Ghost, this was to replace the super 8 version as that one had the main title missing, but to my knowledge, no actual footage.
It makes L&H films among the best best value films still available on cine for the collector. The one thing about these films is that they rarely seem to be over priced. While we see film titles going for some extraordinary sums of money, the one type of super 8 we can always rely on being a generally good buy at a reasonable cost is the brilliant Laurel and Hardy comedies.
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