Presenting 20 Laurel and Hardy Silent Movie Posters, a collection of original one sheet posters from selected silent short subjects starring the greatest comedy team of all time. Included are poster reproductions from Why Girls Love Sailors (1927), With Love and Hisses (1927), Sugar Daddies (1927), Second Hundred Years (1927), Do Detectives Think? (1927), Leave 'Em Laughing (1928), Flying Elephants (1928), Soup to Nuts (1928), Habeas Corpus (1928), Liberty (1929), Wrong Again (1929), That's My Wife (1929), Big Business (1929), Double Whoopee (1929), Bacon Grabbers (1929) and Angora Love (1929). Rounding out the collection are posters from two Laurel and Hardy compilation films from the Boys' silent comedy shorts: Laurel and Hardy's Laughing '20s (1965) and The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy (1967). Printed in color on white paper, posters are organized by year of release. Each poster has been restored to its best possible reproduction quality. For Laurel and Hardy fans, 20 Laurel and Hardy Silent Movie Posters is the perfect companion to 50 Laurel and Hardy Movie Posters and the newly published Laurel and Hardy Movie Poster Art Book.

"50 Laurel & Hardy Movie Posters" is a colorful collection of movie posters from the films of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Hollywood's greatest movie comedy team. From 1926 to 1950, Stan and Babe (as he was affectionately known) appeared together in 106 films, both two-reelers and features. The collection in this book is a sample of movie posters from the team's silent and sound films, as well as compilation films and foreign versions. Printed in color on white paper, movie posters are presented in the order of the year of release. Each movie poster has been restored to its best possible reproduction quality. In a few cases, reproduction quality may vary, due to the condition of the original posters. But every attempt was made to improve the quality of each poster contained in this book. The book is intended to be only a sample of the movie posters used to promote many of the team's films. It does not contain information about their films nor biographical data about the team. The following is a list of the movie posters contained in the book, in the order they are published. In a few cases, window cards were substituted where one-sheet posters were unavailable. 1927: Why Girls Love Sailors, Second Hundred Years. Do Detectives Think? 1928: Leave 'Em Laughing, From Soup to Nuts. 1929: Wrong Again, That's My Wife. 1931: Pardon Us, Beau Hunks (French). 1932: Any Old Port, Pack Up Your Troubles. 1933; Fra Diavolo (French), Midnight Patrol (Swedish), Sons of the Desert. 1934: Hollywood Party, Babes in Toyland (Italian). 1935: Thicker Than Water, Bonnie Scotland. 1936: The Bohemian Girl (Italian), Our Relations. 1937: Way Out West (German), Way Out West (Swedish), Pick a Star, Pick a Star (Swedish). 1938: Swiss Miss, Block-Heads (Australian). 1939: The Flying Deuces, The Flying Deuces (Danish). 1940: Sons of the Desert (Re-Release), A Chump at Oxford 1941: Great Guns. 1943: Jitterbugs, The Dancing Masters. 1944: Nothing But Trouble, The Big Noise. 1945: The Bullfighters. 1946: A Chump at Oxford (Re-Release), 1947: Way Out West (Re-Release). 1954: Bogus Bandits (aka The Devil's Brother (Re-Release), Utopia. 1958: The Golden Age of Comedy (Compilation). 1960: When Comedy was King (Compilation), Block-Heads (German). 1964: MGMs Big Parade of Comedy (Compilation). 1965: Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20s (Compilation). 1967: The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy (Compilation), The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy (Compilation). 1970: 4 Clowns (Compilation). 1975: That's Entertainment Part 2 (Compilation)

For the first time, all 99 Laurel and Hardy comedies, from early two-reelers through classic shorts and great features, are fully documented with cast-lists, credits and plot outlines. 400 photos.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy improvised many of the scenes for their classic comedies while the cameras were rolling, which meant that some excellent material in their scripts was lost - until now. Twenty complete, original screenplays for their short subjects are presented here for the the very first time. They include a treasure trove of unused but hilarious comedy routines. Among them is the entire script for a proposed 1926 comedy, never filmed, which would have been the comedians' first film as a team. The scripts are illustrated with 150 rare photos; many of them vividly depict the process of making the films. Introductions for each entry detail the fascinating differences between the scripts and the movies made from them. Full cast and credit information is also included. This collection of fabulous rarities is essential for any admirer of Stan and Ollie.

"Great Silent Comedians Poster Art Book" is back with a revised, second edition and a new title! Retitled “Great Silent Comedians Movie Poster Book” by Jake Lenburg, the book spans nearly a quarter of a century, containing nearly 75 movie posters and lobby cards from the classic films of Hollywood's legendary silent film clowns: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Harry Langdon, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Laurel and Hardy, and Charley Chase. Compared to the original book, the revised edition has a new design and layout. Thanks to the new size, each poster is full page in size. Best of all, nearly 20 posters have never been published before and were not included in the original book. Looks like collecting movie posters of the great silent comedians just got even better!

Are you an art-movie buff or a blockbuster enthusiast? Can you reel off a list of New Wave masterpieces, or are you more interested in classic Westerns? Most of us love the movies in one form or another, but very few of us have the all-round knowledge we’d like. 30-Second Cinema offers an immersion course, served up in neat, entertaining shorts. These 50 topics deal with cinema’s beginnings, with its growth as an industry, with key stars and producers, with global movements—from German Expressionism to New Hollywood—and with the movies as a business. By the time you’ve worked your way through, you’ll be able to identify the work of George Melies, define auteur theory or mumblecore in a couple of pithy phrases, and you’ll have broadened your knowledge of global cinema to embrace not only Bollywood but Nollywood, too. All in the time it takes to watch a couple of trailers.