VINTAGE SUPER-8 SOUND BLACKHAWK FILMS
Featuring
Laurel and Hardy -  Charley Chase
Little Rascals - Charlie Chaplin
And Many More Super 8mm Magnetic Sound Films

LAUREL & HARDY 2-REELER COMEDIES

• Laurel and Hardy 2-Reel Comedies - (1929-1935) Classic Hal Roach sound shorts from the greatest comedy team. Too many titles to list descriptions of each one. Call me or email if you need to ask anything about a title. All are Excellent+ to Like New Blackhawk prints, 400' in the OB:
  

  DIRTY WORK (2) - $49 BUSY BODIES (2) - $49 MIDNIGHT PATROL - $39 THE LIVE GHOST (2) - $49 BERTH MARKS - $39

  GOING BYE BYE (3) - $49 THE FIXER UPPERS (2) - $39 THEM THAR HILLS (2) - $49 THE HOOSEGOW - $49 HOG WILD - $49

• Laurel and Hardy Comedies - Classic silent Hal Roach shorts with added sound tracks of music and sound effects. All are  Near Mint Blackhawk prints, 400' in the OB - $49 each

  TWO TARS (2) LIBERTY (2)

  BIG BUSINESS YOU'RE DARN TOOTIN'

• BATTLE OF THE CENTURY PIE FIGHT & DAY AT THE STUDIO - On one full 400' reel in a green L&H box. Includes excerpts from "Battle Of The Century" with a music and effects sound track and "Pick A Star" (Thunderbird print) - $59
• BATTLE OF THE CENTURY PIE FIGHT - 1927. The only segment that exists from this lost 2-reeler.  When a pie delivery man (Charlie Hall) slips on a banana peel, meant for the fighter, a classic pie throwing scene results. Excellent with music and effects sound track in the OB, about 100' on a 200' reel  - $29
• BEAU HUNKS - 1930. Four reel featurette on 2x400' reels. Very good used print, few light lines - $49

LAUREL & HARDY 3-REELER COMEDIES

• Laurel and Hardy 3-Reel Comedies - (1929-1935) Classic Hal Roach sound shorts from the greatest comedy team. Too many titles to list descriptions of each one. Call me or email if you need to ask anything about a title. All are Excellent+ to Like New Blackhawk prints, on 2x400' reels in the OB:
  
  THE LAUREL AND HARDY MURDER CASE - $69
  CHICKENS COME HOME - $69
  THE CHIMP - $59
  OLIVER THE EIGHTH - $69
  BLOTTO - $69

• ANOTHER FINE MESS (2) - 1930 Laurel and Hardy comedy. Homeless, penniless and one step ahead of the police, Stanley and Oliver take refuge in the home of big-game hunter Colonel Buckshot while the owner is on safari. Also stars Thelma Todd and James Finlayson. Near Mint on a 600' Bonum reel in a plastic case or 2x400' reels in the OB - $59

• THE MUSIC BOX- 1932 Laurel and Hardy Academy Award winning comedy. The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen's house. Excellent+ condition on 2x400' reels in the OB - $59

LAUREL and HARDY FEATURES

• OUR RELATIONS (2) - 1936 Laurel and Hardy comedy with James Finlayson, Alan Hale and Sidney Toler. Unbeknownst to Stanley and Oliver, their long-lost twin brothers, sailors Alfie and Bert are in town on shore leave carrying a valuable pearl ring entrusted to them by their ship's captain. All four get involved in multiple cases of mistaken identity as a gang of hoodlums try to steal the ring Stanley and Oliver wind up with their feet in cement, about to be dumped into the harbor. Near Mint Blackhawk print on 4x400' reels in the OB - $169

• WAY OUT WEST - 1937 Laurel and Hardy comedy with James Finlayson and Rosina Lawrence. Stan and Ollie are charged with delivering the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. However they reckon without the machinations of her evil guardian Mickey Finn who is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon singer wife Lola. Considered one of their best features. A Near Mint Blackhawk print on 4x400' reels in the OB - $169

• SWISS MISS - 1938 Laurel and Hardy comedy. Stanley and Oliver are mousetrap salesmen hoping to strike it rich in Switzerland, but get swindled out of all their money by a cheesemaker. While working off their hotel debt, Oliver falls in love with a chambermaid, Anna, who in reality is a famous opera singer spying on her composer husband, Victor, while he works on his new opera. The boys are assigned to move Victor's piano to a secluded tree house, but become trapped on a rickety rope bridge high above an Alpine gorge when they're met halfway across by a gorilla. Near Mint Blackhawk print on 4x400' reels in the OB - $159

• SONS OF THE DESERT (2) - 1934 Laurel and Hardy comedy with Charley Chase and Mae Busch. So that he and Stan can sneak away to Chicago and attend the annual "Sons of the Desert" lodge convention, Ollie pretends to be sick, and gets a doctor (who turns out to be a veterinarian) to prescribe a long ocean voyage to Hawaii. Considered to be their best feature. A Near Mint Blackhawk print on 4x400' reels in the OB - $159

• PARDON US (2) - 1931 Laurel and Hardy comedy with James Finlayson and Walter Long. It's the midst of the Great Depression as well as Prohibition. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have decided to brew their own stuff, and what they can't drink, they'll sell. Well, they made the mistake of selling some beer to two undercover cops and the boys are incarcerated. They're taken to a brutal and unfriendly prison. Near Mint Blackhawk on 3x400' reels in the OB - $139

• THE BOHEMIAN GIRL - 1936 Laurel and Hardy comedy with James Finlayson, Thelma Todd and Mae Busch. A band of Gypsies are camped outside the walls of Count Arnheim's palace. Oliver's wife kidnaps the Count's daughter Arline, then leaves the child and runs off with her lover, Devilshoof. Stanley and Oliver pass the time playing "fingers" and bumblingly ply their trade picking pockets. Finally, just when Oliver needs his help to rescue Arline, Stanley gets drunk while siphoning wine into bottles. A Near Mint Blackhawk print on 4x400' reels in the OB - $149

• BLOCK-HEADS - 1938 Laurel and Hardy comedy with James Finlayson, Billy Gilbert and Ben Turpin. It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan at the Soldier's Home. Thinking Stan is disabled (it's just that he's sitting on his leg), Oliver takes pity on him and takes him home for a nice home-cooked meal. But Oliver's wife has other ideas and leaves him to fend for himself. After blowing up the kitchen, Oliver is helped by his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Gilbert... until the big-game hunting Mr. Gilbert comes home unexpectedly, carrying a shotgun. Near Mint Blackhawk on 3x400' reels in the OB - $129

• PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES - 1932 Laurel and Hardy comedy with James Finlayson and Walter Long. The boys' Army buddy, Eddie Smith, is killed in the trenches in France, leaving his baby girl an orphan. Back home after Armistice, they try to find Eddie's father and turn the child over to him. Unfortunately, they keep coming up with the wrong Smiths, and in the process disrupt a wedding by proclaiming the baby to be the groom's child. To evade the Welfare Association, they try to skip town, raising money for their escape by hocking their lunch wagon. A Near Mint Blackhawk print on 4x400' reels in the OB - $169

• A CHUMP AT OXFORD - 1939 Laurel and Hardy comedy with James Finlayson, Peter Cushing and Anita Garvin. With Stan in drag, the boys get jobs as a butler and maid for a dinner party at the Vandevere's. After that ends in disaster, they're reduced to sweeping streets, and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford for a proper education. Good used condition with some wear and a light image on 3x400' reels in the OB - $69

• MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS - 1934 Laurel and Hardy comedy with Charlotte Henry and Henry Brandon. Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stanley Dum instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland. Like New Thunderbird print on 4x400' reels in a green Blackhawk L&H box - $169

• PUBLIC GHOST NO. 1 - 1935 Charley Chase comedy with Joyce Compton and Edwin Maxwell . A classic favorite with Charley hired to haunt a house. One of his best films. Near Mint in the OB - $59
• HASTY MARRIAGE - 1934 Charley Chase comedy with James Finlayson, Eddie Dunn and Billy Gilbert. Unemployed Charlie Chase is in love with a streetcar conductor's daughter, but her mother prefers a security officer with the streetcar line for son-in-law material. Hilarious goings-on on the streetcar follow and the couple commit a `Hasty Marriage' when Charlie finds out that the job he is applying for is only open to married men. Near Mint in the OB - $59

THE LITTLE RASCALS (OUR GANG)

• Little Rascals (Our Gang) Comedies - Classic Hal Roach comedies from the early 1930's. All Excellent used to Like New condition prints, 400' in the OB - $59 each unless noted

  MAMA'S LITTLE PIRATE MOAN AND GROAN INC. FLY MY KITE HELPING GRANDMA

  DIVOT DIGGERS PUPS IS PUPS (Good used condition) - $39 BARNUM & RINGLING INC.

• Little Rascals (Our Gang) Comedies - Classic Hal Roach comedies from 1935 TO 1938. All Excellent+ to Like New prints, 225' on a 200' or 400' reel in OB - $29 each

  HIDE AND SHRIEK NIGHT 'N' GALES FISHY TALES

  THE PIGSKIN PALOOKA CANNED FISHING

CHARLIE CHAPLIN MUTUAL COMEDIES

With RKO Van Beuren music and effects sound track added in the 1930's.
All Excellent+ to Mint condition on 400' reels in the OB - $69 each

• EASY STREET (2) - 1917. A reformed tramp becomes a police constable who must fight a huge thug who dominates an inner city street.

• THE COUNT - 1916. Charlie burns a count's trousers while ironing them and is fired. The tailor finds an invitation to dinner at Miss Moneybags and goes in place of the count.

• THE CURE (2) - 1917. Charlie goes to a spa to dry out, but he takes a trunk of liquor with him. He tangles with another's gouty foot in a revolving door.

• THE ADVENTURER - 1917. Charlie escapes from prison. After rescuing a girl and her mother from drowning, Charlie is invited to their home where a big party is held and he is treated like a hero.

• THE RINK (2) - 1916. After amusements working in a restaurant, Charlie uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

• ONE A.M. - 1916. After a night on the town, Charlie comes home to the house where he is staying, drunk and unable to find his key. For the next twenty minutes he staggers into, out of, and through the house in an inebriated confrontation with the house itself.

• THE PAWNSHOP - 1916. Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant; he is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired; he nearly destroys everything in the shop and and himself; he helps capture a burglar and he destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail. One of the funniest movies every made, and definitely one of Chaplin's finest.

• THE TRAMP - 1915. "The Tramp" was made for Essanay, who gave Chaplin his second film contract in as many years and much greater creative freedom than he previously enjoyed under Mack Sennett at Keystone. With a syncronized music track by Blackhawk.

Chaplin titles above are all $69 each

• Flip The Frog - Mint Blackhawk prints in the OB: FUNNY FACE, CUCKOO MURDER CASE (2), SODA SQUIRT, BULLONEY, THE NEW CAR - $49 each
  SPOOKS - Has some wear and lines - $24
• THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN - 1934 Ub Iwerks classic ComiColor Cartoon. Classic Washington Irving story. Beautiful Agfa Color in the OB - $59
• THE BRAVE TIN SOLDIER - 1934 Ub Iwerks classic ComiColor Cartoon. A musical rendition of the Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tale where a brave tin soldier with only one leg and a toy ballerina find happiness. Beautiful Agfa Color in very good used condition in the OB - $29

• FOX MOVIETONE WORLD WAR II NEWS RELEASES - Hard to find Blackhawk prints in Like New to Mint condition in the OB's, 225': PEARL HARBOR,  FDR DECLARATION OF WAR - $39 each
• A CHANGE OF SPIRIT - 1912 D.W. Griffith romantic comedy starring Blanche Sweet. With synchronized musical sound track. Mint in the OB - $39
• FARO NELL - 1929 sound comedy starring Louise Fazenda. 400' - $29
• Shirley Temple BABY BURLESK Comedies - GLAD RAGS TO RICHES, KIN N' HOLLYWOOD - $24 each
• THE JAZZ AGE (2) - Wonderful hour long documentary from 1949 produced by NBC and narrated by Fred Allen. Shortly before his death, comedian Fred Allen supplied the dry-witted narration for this Project 20 hour-long documentary special. Spanning the period from the 1919 Treaty of Versailles to the 1929 stock market crash, the special utilizes documentary footage and clips from dramatic films to recreate the era of "wonderful nonsense." Mint condition. Choice of one print on 2x600' reels and one print on 3x400' reels - $139
• THE SWORD OF VILLON - 1955 Screen Directors Playhouse Hal Roach production. Starring Errol Flynn playing one of the most wanted men in france in 1455. Like New on 2x400' reels in the OB - $59
• THE PLOUGH THAT BROKE THE PLAINS - 1936. This Pare Lorentz documentary is beautiful. The photography and music, in fact, are so good, that Howard Hawks seems to have cribbed extensively from it for RED RIVER. It is a landmark American documentary film. Aesthetically, it broke new ground in seamlessly marrying pictorial imagery, symphonic music, and poetic free verse, all realised with supreme artistry. Excellent condition on 2x400' reels in the OB - $59
• PROHIBITION AND REPEAL - Excellent compilation of Fox Movietone News releases during the prohibition era up to it being ended by FDR in 1933. Full 400', Like New print in the OB - $49
• RED INGLE AND HIS GANG - One of the Fox "Movietone Melodies" from 1949. "Hollywood Square Dance" performed by Red Ingle (vocal) and the Natural Seven, "I Love You for Seventy Mental Reasons" (parody of "I Love You For Sentimental Reasons") performed by Red Ingle and Karen Tedder, "Sweet Sue" performed by the Snafu Brothers (puppets). Mint, about 225' in the OB - $29
• BARNEY OLDFIELD'S RACE FOR A LIFE - 1913 Mack Sennett comedy. Virtuous Mabel Normand rejects the improper advances of a villainous cad. The furious villain and his henchmen then seize Mabel and chain her to a railroad track. With music and effects track. Like New, 200' in white box - $39
• THE LITTLEST ANGEL - Agfa Color 1950 Coronet Film. The gift of the Littlest Angel was chosen by God to shine as an inspiration for all men when Jesus was born. Animated classic based on the book by Charles Tazewell. Classic 1950 animated cartoon film. Near Mint beautiful Agfa Color Mylar print on a 400' reel in the OB - $89

• BEER IS HERE - 1933 Weber and Fields comedy. Hilarious comedy team from Vaudeville in one of their few film comedies. Like New condition 30 minute comedy on 2x400' reels in a worn OB - $69
• THE NON STOP KID - 1918 Harold Lloyd comedy. Classic comedy with music and effects track. 225' on a 400' reel - $39
• MOVIES THAT TALK & SING - Full 200' reel of scenes from Blackhawk Films sound cartoon, short and feature releases. A Blackhawk catalog on film, introduced by Kent Eastin shown running an Elmo projector. Excellent+ condition - $29
• THE HINDENBURG (2) - The crash of the Hindenburg in Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937. One of the most dramatic scenes ever filmed. 200' in excellent useed condition - $29

• THE BARBER SHOP - Classic W.C. Fields 1933 Mack Sennett comedy. Like New on 400' reel in OB - $39
• THE POOL SHARK - 1915 Casino Star Comedies. First screen appearance of W.C. Fields. With special Blackhawk music track. Like New in OB, 200' - $39
• THE DENTIST - Classic W.C. Fields 1933 Mack Sennett comedy. Excellent+ on 400' reel in OB - $39
• FOX MOVIETONE NEWS RELEASES - Hard to find Blackhawk prints in Excellent to Near Mint condition in the OB's, 225': FILMING THE CRASHES, BROADWAY BY DAY (2), FILMING THE FASHIONS (2), MONKIES IS THE CWAZIEST PEOPLES (3), WHEN DISASTER STRIKES, LAWRENCE WELK CHAMPAGNE MUSIC (2), SHIRLEY TEMPLE THE BIGGEST LITTLE STAR, PAN AMERICAN CLIPPERS - $29 each

• MACK SENNETT'S FUN FACTORY (2) - The wild comedy of Mack Sennett is shown is this great THE HISTORY OF THE MOTION PICTURE series Produced by Paul Killam and Saul Turrell in the 60's with music and narration. Mint, 600' on a Bonum reel in a case - $69
  Another print in excellent used condition on 2x400' reels in the OB - $49
• NOSFERATU (DRACULA) - 1922 F.W. Murnau gothic horror feature. Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. Silent classic based on the story "Dracula". A Paul Killian abridged version with a narration and music sound track. Excellent to Like New on a 600' Bonum reel in a plastic case - $69

• THE SILENT PARTNER - 1955 "Screen Directors Playhouse" television show starring Buster Keaton, Joe E. Brown and Zasu Pitts. 30 minutes on 2x400' reels - $59
• BIG MOMENTS FROM LITTLE PICTURES - 1924 Hal Roach comedy starring Will Rogers. He takes on Rudolph Valentino's bull-fighting epic BLOOD AND SAND, Douglas Fairbanks' ROBIN HOOD, weepy melodramas, and the Keystone comedies. Very funny, with a music sound track.
  Excellent condition in a white box - $29
• LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1941 - Great series from the 60's as Lowell Thomas talks about the news of the past using scenes from Fox Movietone News. Excellent+ condition. 600' in a case - $39
• A WOMAN IN GREY - Complete 1920 serial feature of "Mystery and Adventure" in 15 chapters. Stars Arline Pretty and Henry G. Sell. This Blackhawk print is supurb quality from the 35mm master material. This fifteen-part serial, "the last of the adult serials", is a beautifully photographed and edited action melodrama, with surprisingly good acting in all roles. Each chapter about 250' on a 400' reel with a synchronized piano music sound track. Near Mint, 15x400' reels in the OB's. Averages less than $20 per chapter - $299

• FILM FIRSTS - Complete Paul Killiam "Hour of Silents" documentary covering revolutionary "firsts" in the history of movie making. Includes the first kiss; the first cartoon "Gertie the Dinosaur", the first science fiction film "Trip to the Moon", the first use of photography techniques, the first western, the first comedy star John Bunny and much more. Music, sound effects and narration. Mint condition mylar print on on 1200' reel - $179

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