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  • Superlative Oscar winning stuff and still very funny indeed. Interesting how well these two got on despite being from very different backgrounds,but the chemistry and friendship between them shows in their spectacular comic timing. The script is almost superfluous,it's the brilliant action and reactions that shine,I think you can tell the silent movie heritage .One day I want to visit these steps and doff my cap to the divinely inspired peerless Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

  • Why does it need to be colored in, it's perfect already

  • I love how frustrated Billy Gilbert's (I believe that is his name) character gets in this short film. :-) Hilarious how they briefly pause and salute (not shown in this clip) as the piano is playing the national anthem, and then Billy's character continues his to destroy the piano .. haha.

    "What"?

    "I don't want you, I want that other monkey." *Stan whistles at Ollie*

    "What?"

    "He don't want me, he wants the other monkey."

    Laurel & Hardy: Greatest comedy team EVER!

  • The staircase,"the music box steps", in the 90's,is next to 923-935 Vendome St.near thed intersection of Del Monte in quiet,residential area called Silver Lakes.The staircase was 1st used in their popular but now-lost1927 film "Hats off"in a scene where the two are hauling up a large washing machine.According to stills from the movie,only overgrown fields surrounded the stairs at the time.There was a big right up in the paper today on Silent films and where they filmed!

  • Poor Piano, they just couldn't get it all the way up those long steps.

  • superb comedy but ruined in colour

  • what idiots would dislike this?

  • hahahaha Very Funny I LOVE Laurel & Hardy so funny this clip

  • Colorization--phooey. Also, this is L.A.; you really think that grass was actually green?

  • I don't like Laurel and Hardy in colour. It's like you imagine everything was black and white back then even though you know it wasn't.

  • "he wants the other monkey"....BAHAHAHAHH!!!!

  • i have the black and white but can i get the color version of this

  • This was the only Laurel and Hardy movie ever to receive an Academy Award -- Best Short Feature for 1932. They deserved many more. While I like the Marx Brothers too, it always annoys me the way film historians rant and rave about how great and "relevant" the Marxes were, while almost totally ignoring Stan and Babe. 'Tain't fair!

  • I walked upped those very steps! Gosh...was in a "Time Warp" doing it!

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  • This was a remake of sorts of HATS OFF where the boys had to lug up the same steps a washing machine. It is indeed fortunant that the film was remade because the original has been lost for many years. Indeed, most of the earliest films have been lost for decades.

    BATTLE OF THE CENTURY is extant only in part 2, the pie fight to end all pie fights !

  • @EmmetEarwax Actually, only "Hats Off" is completely lost. "The Rogue Song" exists in a couple of fragments only.

  • This classic was shown by PBS at their poledge begatons. Was. They have gone onto other stunts to pull in viewers. I, myself, eventually began boycotting PBS during these periods because they never showed my favorite programs and because they would rudely interrupt every 20 minutes or so, for 15 minuites of blah-blah about their needing money. Of considerable interest were their aerial views of various nations by helicopter...

  • Its just as funny every time i watch it.

  • muy bueno unos genios!!!

  • This makes me wanna go out and kick a woman right in the middle of her daily duty

  • Does that stair still exist in the real world?

  • @Snowwie88: I think there's some historical map somewhere on the Net that notes where the L&H films and shorts were filmed in California.

  • @MadScout

    I found it, the stairs do still exist, there are several video's on YouTube showing the stairs.

  • @Snowwie88 and the address to where the stairs are?

  • @667mumble

    Vendôme Street, just south of Sunset Blvd. L.A.

  • I hate that laughing woman.

    Its not a reason to laugh

  • is this not Cameron and Glegg, on thier christmas recess from parliment.

  • In germany we call them "Dick & Doof". Means: "The fat und the dumb".

  • @KingKKevinKev In Estonia(n), "Tick Ja Toff" - Matchstick & Candy

  • The best!

  • Black and White is better.

  • yeah blck & white always love em they always make me laugh

  • siete fortiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iiiiiiiiiiii

  • "Right in the middle of my daily duties" Colour or B&W that kick up the nanny's arse (and let's be fair, she had it comming) is priceless,

  • Best laugh ever!

  • Yeah, certain people are looking to be offended.

  • It is very nice. It releive from stress

  • I like the colour,the picture its so much clearer,but it seems to change the time when it was made,it seems more modern,and not at the beginning of the Hollywood geat period.both the black and white and the colour versions are very different ,so theyre both valid.

  • @davebournemouth Yes and the B&W version is also available so we have the best of both worlds. I agree with everything you said.

  • @couch63 thanks for your reply,although its difficult to decide,i think that this is my favourite Laurel and Hardy film,what amazed me,is that even after the piano has fallen off the cart, crashed down the steps so many times,and its been in the water fountain,and dropped out of the window,its still works,God knows how ! and then its Prof Whatsit who actually smashed it to bits! wonderful.

  • Laurels face is the best.

  • "He wants the other monkey"

  • @radioflyer68911 LOL but if he said that in 2011, he would be in court for racismn ism is ismn and all that.

  • Times have sure changed. You could never get away with kicking a girl in the middle of her daily duties today.

  • I love that "he wants the other monkey!"

  • police brutality. damn pig

  • I want to visit these steps badly! :D

  • OR ELSE SHE COULD STAY ON THE GRASS UNTIL BOTH OF THEM THEY WILL PASS HER WITH THE PIANO U ...BETTER NOW BRO @PJ3love

  • I love it when the piano runs over Hardy

  • the woman with the baby pusher she could pass from the grass she didnt need to pass from the stairs by force!!!! its ridicoulous:)

  • @getfunky79 wtf - she didnt have 4 wheel drive did she?

  • great stuff, love it

  • Funniest Laural and Hardy short ever.

  • did oliver go down two steps at a time?

  • These two guys remind me of Dubya Bush and Tony Blair, a fucked-up pair of clowns !!

  • When I was in college at Cal State Fullerton, (1977), I drove around with a friend of mine who was a total Laurel and Hardy fanatic. He was trying at the time to find all of the outdoor areas where Hal Roch filmed these scenes. We found a lot, and I took his picture at the sites. This one, if I remember correctly is in Long Beach about four blocks up from PCH. I think it's still there, but haven't been near there in years. My friend died 15 years ago and the book he made is gone, sadly.

  • @Postie218 This is actually located at 935 Vendome Street, Silverlake, CA. Theres a plaque located on the site and Street Sign labeled "Music Box". I can't believe how many times I've driven by it and not notice.

  • MILF detected

  • GREAT PALS

  • The best comedic duo ever!

  • After all that, up & down those steps, they could have taken the road round the back, it leads right to the front door, it does in the black & White version lol,

  • Grew up watching these with my late father. We used to cry with laughter. These are what memories are made of. Laurel's facial expressions are priceless. Brilliant. So much better than the rubbish they put out today.

  • The person or persons who colorized this should be shot at dawn.

  • @gtc1961 Problem. Hal Roach is already dead.

    They actually did a really nice job on it, as Hal Roach was the one who directed the people to colorize some of the films.

  • @gtc1961 early at dawn

  • @gtc1961 Disagree. Stan Laurel said in an interview that he would have loved to have made their films in colour, but it was far too expensive. Black & white or colour, they are still the greatest comedy partnership that has ever existed.

  • @gtc1961 - other music has been added too.

  • @gtc1961 Whats made in black&white should stay in black&white! Dont piss on a picasso. Thumbs up! 

  • @gtc1961 The only good thing with colorizing these old movies is you can still see it in b&w if you want.

  • @gtc1961 Why.....?

    It's not as if the black and white version was wiped from existence, just watch that.

  • @mrevilevil2 beacuse virtually all colorized movies look awful, the colors they use don't exist in the real world....I mean the side of the white building is magenta! In one movie Frank Sinatra, "Old Blue Eyes" had brown eyes!!!

  • @gtc1961 colorized is not bad. I like the b/w and the colorized and I am a big black and white movie fan. And the Hal Roach Studios has the best process to colorize.

  • @gtc1961 oh yea the hal roach studios colorized this.

  • @gtc1961 - Why wait until dawn?

  • @gtc1961 I'm sure the original black and white is still available. It's more realistic in color. If you want to see a Laurel and Hardy feature that's wonderful in the colorized version, watch "The March of the Wooden Soldiers", which was originally "Babes in Toyland" when released in 1934.

  • @Hoosiercorporal Oh no! That's my all-time HATED colorized version! I was so pissed off when channel 11 here in NY started running the colorized version on Thanksgiving morning. I actually turnesd the color off on my TV! I mean Ollie had on a mauve vest and hat!! This one was done better but I still like B&W better!

  • genius! Stan is from my home-town - Bishop Auckland. the biggest shit hole in England!

  • JUST GREAT!!!!

  • i'd have took that bitches head off

  • "He kicked you ?" "Yes officer, right in the middle of my daily duties"

  • Thank you for posting this. It is one of my favorite clips and I have been looking for it for a while now.

  • "the other monkey!" LOL!

  • Gosh Police aren't like that nowadays... wish they were though, a few people need a good clip over the ear!

  • I think its more fun without the colors couse it looks older :)

  • they should have let the piano hit the cop

    rob

  • Classic comedy but I prefer it in Black and White for some reason.

  • Laurel then "rubs his hat better"...

  • 5:03 - Officer removes Laurel's hat and clonks him one !!

    "Now let that be a lesson to you".

  • best short film ever....

  • This was the first Laurel and Hardy film I ever watched, forty odd years ago, still hilarious. There will never be a duo like them again, I'm glad I lived in an age where they still showed these classics

  • One of my great joys was walking up these stairs and thinking about Stan and Ollie. "He don't want me, he wants the other monkey."

  • @wlsallnight where are they?

  • @RickDastardly1 935 Vendome Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026

  • @RickDastardly1 thanks

  • Love the crackling going on

  • Love the sound effect when Stan gets a knock on the head by the cop...... shame these two are no longer with us....

  • Maybe this is the beginning of police brutality in USA.

  • "He kicked me....right in the middle of my daily duties!" LOL Classic 

  • Really famous!!!

    and so funny!...

  • 1:28 great timing when the huts are put on the heads at the same time !!!

  • lololololol

  • he don't want me.. he want the other monkey.... YOU!!

  • Gosh I used to watch this when I was a kid and always would get a kick out of it. So much trouble for just a paino. HAHAHA. ;D

  • How can a scene where 2 men attempt a piano delivery be so funny and successful.

    This is truly great, people.

    What has happened to comedy. Where has '"greatness" gone?

  • Quality!!

  • Just read a short story by Ray Bradbury that featured this scene. Anyway, "daily duties"- lol

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  • @brianwells456comcast don't pick faults with it, you're ruining my childhood

  • @brianwells456comcast There was also a sting pulling it too...

  • lol this was the first Laurel & Hardy I had seen as a child :D!!!!!

    Nothing will ever beat Laurel & Hardy in terms of comedy!!!!

  • LOLL :D a true classic !

  • When Laurel kicks that lady... LOL

  • Weren't these stairs used in the classic Three Stooges film An Ache In Every Steak? Curly has to run up two blocks of ice which melt by the time he reaches the top-MORE THAN ONCE!

  • @NYVoice I do believe they are one and the same!!

  • @NYVoice No.I saw some source that said the Three Stooges stairs are/were located a couple of miles northeast at 2257-2258 Fair Oak View Terrace.

  • OK, good looking out on that one Brian. It's amazing that they still remain today-or that they were ever built at all! Not only are they artistic landmarks but architectural wonders.

  • colorization helps as it brings a youthful following who cant watch b/w since they were always exposed to color.so it serves a useful urpose!

  • ya se de dond sacaron la idea PORcel y Olmedo!

  • whats the name of the song thats played in the background at 1:57? please help me

  • I prefer these in B&W for some reason

  • 3:47 you can see the shadow of the camera crew!

  • you don't see great comedy duos like these ones anymore

  • CLASSIC :)

  • The best comedy actors ever; I love them so much, evern I saw their movies more then 100 times, they still can make me laugh very much 

  • Never knew they colored this,I have the B&W version on DVD.

  • Laurel & Hardy are funnier than alot of comedy movies nowadays, and this is from 1930's and 40's.. Respect for those 2 epic guys

  • how ca any one not like this he must have no senss of hummer

  • LLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL THSIS THE FUNNIEST SHIT EVER, its too bad there dead comedians now adays are not as funny as these two LOOOOOOOOOOL ahh miss them :P

  • This is just a 5-minute excerpt from a 28-minute film. This great film should really be seen in its entirety. Every moment of it is a classic.

  • In real life, those stairs only lead to a cul-de-sac, and the entire left side of the stairs is now build up. Condos and crap.

  • The Music Box is actually a remake of a 1927 silent short called Hats Off. As of today, no known print of it exists.

  • My sides hurt so bad with laughing. 1000% amazing!

  • how annoying is that womans laugh

  • @KimberlyxxxTaylor yea i'd kick her head in

  • @afertyus1000 Lmao x

  • Thumbs up for; "HE DON'T WANT ME!!.......HE WANTS THE OTHER MONKEY!!!"

  • @svouros2 you have many Laurel & Hardy episodes?? I don't know what this particular episode is called when Ollie is going to marry a girl named Dulcy and Stan is going to get a car for them. Unfortunately he gets a tiny car! I allways laugh myself to death when they're going to get in the car, takes them like 15-20 minutes or so! xD You know what episode I mean? I would appriciate if you could upload it, well if you have it ofc :-) Then "The midnight patrol" if you have it! :)

  • @Spyflugan91 That short is Our Wife from 1931.

  • They were always dubbed as, "two brains without a thought between them"

  • The greatest!

  • They were the Kings of Comedy - and still are.

  • oliver hardy was the best comedian ever on screen .

  • Only in America is there steps that long bleeding hell!!

  • Pause at 3:47 you can see the camera crew.

  • How is this in color?

  • @evobeatsti

    Hi

    Some of the classic L&H shorts were 'colourised' by computer generated colourisation enhancement techniques. A number of classic black and white movies have been done also.

    Cheers

    ATVmidlands UK

  • I like ollie's laugh

  • Black and white is always better...

  • who cares where they were born. They work was done in the U.S. and that's what matters most.

  • @stackjones1 why? you berk born is where it matters buddy

  • A lot of these actors were born in the UK. Stan Laurel (England), the piano salesman (Scotland), the nanny (England), and the postman (England).

  • where i can find the full movie in colour?

  • What a witch! SHE starts everything, then gets THEM in trouble!

  • I used to like watching Laurel and Hardy when I was in High School still do. Even their silent movies were hilarious because they'd always end up wreacking property then a policeman would just stand there writing up everything they were doing like it was normal lol.

  • supposedly stan was looking at those steps in whitley bay when he got the inspiration to make this

  • sheer comedy brilliance

  • wow it's in color. I can't decide which version is better, so used to black and white

  • man kicks woman woman breaks glass bottle over mans head ahhh the good ol days

  • Brilliant comedy