Below is a clip of Laurel & Hardy dancing from WAY OUT WEST. Look at the pacing. It's just a couple of minutes where no plot is moved forward, no explosions, no getting hit in the crotch -- it all reminds me of a far off time as I watch these two relaxed professional icons (wearing, of course, their suits & bowler hats in the wild west), dance a dance that's equal parts silly and elegant. (The look that Stan gives is to their off-screen mule --unseen in this clip -- who has begun tapping his hoof to the music.)
Here's the schedule of movie showings (all times EST) for the day:
| 6:00 AM | Short Film: Night Owls (1930) |
| Two vagrants try to help a police officer save his reputation. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy. Dir: James Parrott. BW-21 mins, | |
| 6:25 AM | Short Film: Blotto (1930) |
| Stan steals his wife's secret bottle of liquor so he can have a wild night out at the Rainbow club with Ollie. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy BW-26 mins, | |
| 6:55 AM | Short Film: Brats (1930) |
| Two fathers try to spend a quiet night despite their raucous offspring. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy. Dir: James Parrott. BW-21 mins, | |
| 7:20 AM | Short Film: Hog Wild (1930) |
| Two friends try to install a radio antenna, with disastrous results. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Fay Holderness. Dir: James Parrott. BW-19 mins, | |
| 7:45 AM | Short Film: Be Big! (1931) |
| Two married men feign illness so they can ditch their wives and attend a lodge party. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin. Dir: James Parrott. BW-28 mins, | |
| 8:15 AM | Short Film: Laughing Gravy (1931) |
| Roommates try to hide a dog from their grouchy landlord. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall. Dir: James W. Home. BW-31 mins, | |
| 8:50 AM | Short Film: Our Wife (1931) |
| A man tries to help his best friend elope. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Babe London. Dir: James W. Horne. BW-21 mins, | |
| 9:15 AM | Short Film: Pardon Us (1931) |
| Selling homemade beer lands a two friends in prison together. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Marlowe. Dir: James Parrott. BW-55 mins, | |
| 10:30 AM | Short Film: One Good Turn (1931) |
| Two vagrants try to repay the kindly old lady who helped them. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr. Dir: James W. Horne. BW-21 mins, | |
| 10:55 AM | Short Film: Beau Hunks (1931) |
| After being dumped by his girlfriend, "Jeanie-Weenie," Oliver makes Laurel join the Foreign Legion with him. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy BW-37 mins, | |
| 11:35 AM | Short Film: Helpmates (1932) |
| A married man has to get his house back in order before his wife returns. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Bobby Burns. Dir: James Parrott. BW-21 mins, | |
| 12:00 PM | Bonnie Scotland (1935) |
| Two Americans in search of a Scottish inheritance wind up serving with the British in India. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson. Dir: James Horne. BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC | |
| 1:25 PM | Short Film: Fixer Uppers, The (1935) |
| Comedic duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have a no fail plan to help a jealous wife woo her husband, but somehow things go wrong. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Dir: Charles Rogers BW-20 mins, | |
| 1:50 PM | Them Thar Hills (1934) |
| When they go to the mountains for a rest to cure Ollie's gout, the two accidentally get high on moonshine dumped into the well by local moonshiners trying to evade the law. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: Charles Rogers. BW-20 mins, | |
| 2:15 PM | Tit For Tat (1935) |
| A Laurel and Hardy sequel to Them Thar Hills - they open an electrical repair shop and discover that their neighbor/grocer are the same couple they had a run in with in Them Thar Hills. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: Charles Rogers. BW-19 mins, | |
| 2:40 PM | Short Film: Live Ghost, The (1934) |
| A sea captain hires comedic duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to trick sailors into working on his supposedly haunted boat. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Dir: Charles Rogers BW-20 mins, | |
| 3:05 PM | Devil's Brother, The (1933) |
| Two wannabe bandits are hired as servants by the real thing. Cast: Laurel & Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd. Dir: Hal Roach. BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC | |
| 4:40 PM | Short Film: Me and My Pal (1933) |
| A groom and his best man get preoccupied with a jigsaw puzzle on their way to the wedding. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson. Dir: Lloyd French, Charley Rogers. BW-20 mins, | |
| 5:10 PM | Short Film: Their First Mistake (1932) |
| After adopting a baby to save his marriage, a man discovers his wife has left him. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: George Marshall. BW-21 mins, | |
| 5:35 PM | Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) |
| Two World War I veterans try help a comrade's orphaned daughter find her family. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway. Dir: George Marshall, Ray McCarey. BW-66 mins, TV-G | |
| 6:45 PM | Short Film: Scram! (1932) |
| Two vagrants ordered out of town take up with a drunken tycoon. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Cramer. Dir: Ray McCarey. BW-20 mins, | |
| 7:10 PM | Short Film: County Hospital (1932) |
| A hospital visitor wreaks havoc during a routine visit. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-19 mins, | |
| 7:30 PM | Short Film: Chimp, The (1932) |
| A jealous husband thinks two tenants sneaking a pet chimp into their apartment are carrying on with his wife. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-25 mins, | |
| 8:00 PM | Music Box, The (1932) |
| Two men running a moving company have to get a large piano up a daunting flight of stairs. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-29 mins, TV-G | |
| 8:35 PM | Sons of the Desert (1933) |
| Two friends hatch a harebrained scheme to attend a lodge convention over their wives' objections. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase. Dir: William A. Seiter. BW-65 mins, TV-G | |
| 9:45 PM | Way Out West (1938) |
| A pair of tenderfeet try to get the deed to a gold mine to its rightful owner. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sharon Lynne. Dir: James W. Horne. BW-64 mins, TV-G, CC | |
| 11:00 PM | Swiss Miss (1938) |
| When they're swindled, two salesmen have to work off their debts in a Swiss hotel. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Walter Woolf King. Dir: John G. Blystone. BW-65 mins, TV-G | |
| 12:15 AM | Block-Heads (1938) |
| Chaos erupts when a man tries to help an old war buddy. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Minna Gombell. Dir: John G. Blystone. BW-57 mins, TV-G | |
| 1:15 AM | Flying Deuces, The (1939) |
| Two bumblers join the Foreign Legion to forget a beautiful woman. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker. Dir: A. Edward Sutherland. BW-65 mins, TV-G | |
| 2:25 AM | Chump at Oxford, A (1939) |
| When they accidentally capture a bank robber, two street cleaners are given a scholarship to Oxford. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardey, Wilfred Lucas. Dir: Alfred J. Goulding. BW-63 mins, TV-G, CC | |
| 3:30 AM | Saps at Sea (1940) |
| Two factory workers accidentally set sail with an escaped killer. Cast: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, James Finlayson. Dir: Gordon M. Douglas. BW-58 mins, TV-G, CC | |
| 4:30 AM | Air Raid Wardens (1943) |
| A pair of bumblers stumble upon Nazi spies on the home front. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy. Dir: Edward Sedgwick. BW-67 mins, TV-G, CC |
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