16MM FILM - THE TREE IN A TEST TUBE 1942 LAUREL & HARDY KODACHROME COLOR RARE
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:20556630 | Director: Charles McDonald |
| Rating: NR | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
| Genre: Comedy | Film Format: 16mm |
| Sub-Genre: Military/War | Actor: Laurel and Hardy |
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16MM FILM - THE TREE IN A TEST TUBE - 1942 - LAUREL & HARDY - KODACHROME COLOR - DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE WAR EFFORT FILM - w/PETE SMITH - VERY RARE FILM!
Very good condition print on Kodachrome color stock(see screen shots). No VS. Sound. Complete. Mounted on a 400' reel.
Very rare to see Laurel and Hardy in color doing their routines as Pete Smith asks them questions!
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The Tree in a Test Tube (1942) is a short filmproduced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and distributed by the U.S.Forest Service, featuring Laurel and Hardy, with narration read by MGMannouncer and producer Pete Smith.The Tree in a Test Tube is Laurel and Hardy's onlyknown surviving professionally shot color film, shot in Kodachrome on16mm.
Their routine lasts around fiveminutes and was shot silent; Laurel does not audibly speak, but Hardy makes twoutterances (laughter and an utterance of "Ain't that the truth!")that were dubbed into Smith's audio track. The second half of the film isunrelated documentary footage, which shifts focus toward wood's importance tothe World War II victory effort. Included in the documentary footage are visitsto a research laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin and a demonstration at the RinglingBros. Barnum & Bailey Circus in which an elephant stands on a piece of laminated veneer lumber without breaking it. Laurel and Hardy shot this brieffilm during their lunch hour on the back lot of Twentieth Century-Fox onNovember 29, 1941, while they were filming Jitterbugs, and the film went intorelease in spring of 1942.
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