ROBERT YOUNGSON - WHEN COMEDY WAS KING DVD - LAUREL AND HARDY - NEW/SEALED

An essential film\nThis is the second of 8 compilations constructed by Robert Youngson in the late 1950s and 1960s for cinema release. These films plundered a neglected archive (Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, etc.), and far from being a mere recycling exercise, they beautifully showcase a very special part of Hollywood history. More than that, however, they are key part of the Laurel and Hardy story, helping as they did to build a renaissance of their work.\n\nWithout Youngson's passionate love of vintage comedy, many early Laurel and Hardy movies would have been lost forever. It was with his efforts that films such as 'The Battle of the Century', which contains a glorious mass-fight deploying 3000 pies, were saved: when Youngson found the negative, much of the second half of this historic movie was close to ruin. Other films were better preserved, and Youngson took care always to use the original negatives. Since most had lain unseen in decades, the freshness and pristine quality )