In 1936, MGM Studios prepared a little eight minute featurette to promote upcoming movies. For it, a brief opening and a briefer closing were filmed featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, along with their frequent co-star, Jimmy Finlayson. Apparently, all copies of this film have vanished off the face of the planet…at least, copies of it in English. A few years ago though, someone in Europe somewhere found a print that had been dubbed into French and this is it. As I said, Stan and Ollie are at the beginning and at the end. It's always nice to see hitherto-unseen footage of my favorite performers even if I'm not sure what the heck they're saying…
