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Big Business is a 1929
1929 in film

EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
 silent
Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the Vitaphone system....
 Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were a popular comedy team of thin, British-born Stan Laurel and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy . They became famous during the early half of the 20th century for their work in motion pictures and also appeared on stage throughout America and Europe....
 comedy short subject
Short subject

Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American film industry in the early period of Film. The description is now used almost interchangeably with short film....
 directed by James W. Horne
James W. Horne

James W. Horne was an early United States actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later....
 and supervised by Leo McCarey
Leo McCarey

Thomas Leo McCarey was an Academy Awards-winning United States film director, screenwriter and film producer . During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his fine elegance and his great sense of humour....
 from a McCarey (uncredited) and H. M. Walker
H. M. Walker

Harley M. "Beanie" Walker was a member of the Hal Roach film production company from 1916 until his resignation in 1932.As head of the Roach editorial department, he wrote title cards and, in the sound film era, dialogue for virtually all of the studio's output of that period, including the Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy comedy short su...
 script. The film was deemed culturally significant and entered into the United States National Film Registry in 1992.

and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree
Christmas tree

File:Christmas Tree.JPGThe Christmas tree is one of the most popular traditions associated with the celebration of Christmas. Normally an evergreen Pinophyta tree that is brought into a home or used in the open, a Christmas tree is decorated with Christmas lights and colourful Christmas ornaments during the days around Christmas....
 salesmen in California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson
Jimmy Finlayson

James Henderson "Jimmy" Finlayson was a Scottish-American actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is famous for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression "d'ooooooh",and as the most famous comic f...
, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.

ucer Hal Roach
Hal Roach

Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an United States film producer and television producer from the 1910s to the 1990s....
 bought a house from a studio worker so he could destroy it in the film.






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Big Business is a 1929
1929 in film

EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
 silent
Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the Vitaphone system....
 Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were a popular comedy team of thin, British-born Stan Laurel and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy . They became famous during the early half of the 20th century for their work in motion pictures and also appeared on stage throughout America and Europe....
 comedy short subject
Short subject

Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American film industry in the early period of Film. The description is now used almost interchangeably with short film....
 directed by James W. Horne
James W. Horne

James W. Horne was an early United States actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later....
 and supervised by Leo McCarey
Leo McCarey

Thomas Leo McCarey was an Academy Awards-winning United States film director, screenwriter and film producer . During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his fine elegance and his great sense of humour....
 from a McCarey (uncredited) and H. M. Walker
H. M. Walker

Harley M. "Beanie" Walker was a member of the Hal Roach film production company from 1916 until his resignation in 1932.As head of the Roach editorial department, he wrote title cards and, in the sound film era, dialogue for virtually all of the studio's output of that period, including the Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy comedy short su...
 script. The film was deemed culturally significant and entered into the United States National Film Registry in 1992.

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Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree
Christmas tree

File:Christmas Tree.JPGThe Christmas tree is one of the most popular traditions associated with the celebration of Christmas. Normally an evergreen Pinophyta tree that is brought into a home or used in the open, a Christmas tree is decorated with Christmas lights and colourful Christmas ornaments during the days around Christmas....
 salesmen in California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson
Jimmy Finlayson

James Henderson "Jimmy" Finlayson was a Scottish-American actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is famous for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression "d'ooooooh",and as the most famous comic f...
, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.

Production

Producer Hal Roach
Hal Roach

Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an United States film producer and television producer from the 1910s to the 1990s....
 bought a house from a studio worker so he could destroy it in the film. According to Roach, the cast and crew demolished the house next door instead by accident during filming, but Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II....
 said this was a fabrication.

See also

  • Laurel and Hardy films
    Laurel and Hardy films

    This is a list of films which either star or feature the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy. Together, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appeared in 106 short films and features....


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