The RetroFilm Vaultoffers broadcast quality public domain movies to media professionals and television broadcasters. Exhibitors noticed the drop in quality, and often complained that the series was slipping. horror. The Little Rascals home video rights were then sold to Hallmark Entertainment in 1999, who released the DVDs without an official launch while cleaning out their warehouse in early 2000. The films were otherwise offered unedited. [25] Lacking a replacement, Hal Roach persuaded him to stay on for another year. Our Gang was very successful during the 1920s and the early 1930s. New productions based on the shorts have been made over the years, including a 1994 feature film, The Little Rascals, released by Universal Pictures. At the same time, eight Little Rascals shorts were pulled from the King World television package altogether. Financial data for negative costs, revenue, and profits/losses are provided for all 52 MGM, Mikkelson, Barbara and Mikkelson, David. About The RetroFilm Vault. All About Them—Including Farina", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Our_Gang&oldid=1021007114, Articles containing potentially dated statements from May 2021, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 May 2021, at 11:01. by admin on May 19, 2020 at 10:43 am. Our Gang was the brain-child of Hal Roach, the creator and producer of the most successful shorts through the Twenties and Thirties. Neither film was critically or financially successful, and Roach turned to re-releasing the original Our Gang comedies. [57][58] Each tape contained four shorts, as well as newly-produced introductions by film historian Leonard Maltin. Topics. Brentwood would not release another Rascals series until 2000. By the end of 1941, Darla Hood had departed from the series, and Spanky McFarland followed her within a year. The gang decide to visit him, and end up … Again, remember that this release applies only to the composition, meaning that you may use the sheet music, lyrics, or create new recordings. [39] The final short was Dancing Romeo, which was released on April 29, 1944 (as an MGM Miniature, not an Our Gang comedy). These were released as "Famous Kid Comedies," as Official could not use "Our Gang". The following is a listing of the primary child actors in the Our Gang comedies. Two further Hallmark DVD collections featured ten shorts apiece and were released in 2003 and 2005, respectively. As of May 1, 2021[update], the following notable cast members are confirmed as still living. Following the broadcast, Spanky McFarland informed the media of the truth,[55] and in December, William Thomas, Jr. (son of Billie Thomas, the person who played Buckwheat) filed a lawsuit against ABC for negligence.[55]. Fantastic comedy public domain stock footage from the masters of comedy from Buster Keaton and W.C. Fields to The Little Rascals and The Three Stooges. "[14] In a separate interview, Ernie Morrison stated, "When it came to race, Hal Roach was color-blind. Like many child actors, the Our Gang children were typecast and had trouble outgrowing their Our Gang images. One sheet movie poster advertises 'The Fourth Alarm' , Hal Roach's Our Gang comedy with fireman Allen 'Farina' Hoskins and the Little Rascals, 1926. Starting in 1928, Our Gang comedies were distributed with phonographic discs that contained synchronized music-and-sound-effect tracks for the shorts. When applicable the license is detailed below the sample in this area.If you have any further questions about a license please visit this page, that clearly describes the Creative Commons Audio license types. These were released as "Famous Kid Comedies," as Official could not use "Our Gang". [31] No further Our Gang features were made. The company's licensing only lasted for a short period. The films were created by studio executive Hal Roach, who was best known as the man behind the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. [46] The two separate packages of Our Gang films competed with each other in syndication for three decades. An unsatisfied McGowan abruptly left after Wild Poses. During the 1980s and 1990s, MGM released several non-comprehensive VHS tapes of its shorts, and a VHS of the feature General Spanky. 1 result. 1979 brought The Little Rascals Christmas Special, an animated holiday special produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, written by Romeo Muller and featuring the voice work of Darla Hood (who died suddenly before the special aired) and Matthew "Stymie" Beard. The pilots were not bought, but were notable for including Gary Coleman. Some shorts around this time, particularly Spook Spoofing (1928, one of only two three-reelers in the Our Gang canon), contained extended scenes of the gang tormenting and teasing Farina, scenes which helped spur the claims of racism, which many other shorts did not warrant. [8], The African-American characters have often been criticized as racial stereotypes. With these releases, Cabin Fever made all 80 Roach sound shorts, and four silents, available for purchase unedited with digitally restored picture and sound. In 1963, Hal Roach Studios, by then run by Roach's son Hal Jr, filed for bankruptcy. Many producers, including Our Gang alumnus Jackie Cooper, made pilots for new Little Rascals television series, but none ever went into production. Other early Our Gang children were Eugene Jackson as Pineapple, Scooter Lowry, Andy Samuel, Johnny Downs, Winston and Weston Doty, and Jay R. Smith. [30] Roach agreed, producing shorter, one-reel Our Gang comedies (ten minutes in length instead of twenty). The King World/CBS Little Rascals package was featured as exclusive programming (in the United States) for the American Movie Classics network from August 2001 to December 2003, with Frankie Muniz hosting. Roach's distributor Pathé released One Terrible Day, the fourth short produced for the series, as the first Our Gang short on September 10, 1922; the pilot Our Gang was not released until November 5. Our Gang & Little Rascals - Dogs of War (1923) Running Time: 24 mins Black & White Starring: Hal Roach's Rascals, Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Episode from The Little Rascals/ Our Gang with the title: " Mush and Milk". Audiences found both the silent and sound short films hilarious for decades to come. Cabin Fever acquired the rights to use the original Our Gang title cards and MGM logos, and for the first time in over 50 years, the Roach sound Our Gang comedies could be commercially exhibited in their original formats. Under its new name, The Little Rascals enjoyed renewed popularity on television, and new Little Rascals comic books, toys, and other licensed merchandise were produced. [55], Among notable Our Gang imposters is Jack Bothwell, who claimed to have portrayed a character named "Freckles",[55] going so far as to appear on the game show To Tell The Truth in the fall of 1957, perpetuating this fraud. We were just a group of kids who were having fun. 1933. Ital. [33] After delivering the Laurel and Hardy feature Block-Heads, Roach also ended his distribution contract with MGM, moving to United Artists and leaving the short-subjects business. Cooper proved to be the personality the series had been missing since Mickey Daniels left and was featured prominently in three 1930/1931 Our Gang films: Teacher's Pet, School's Out, and Love Business. Matthew Beard, Wheezer Hutchins, and Dorothy DeBorba carried the series during this period, aided by Sherwood Bailey and Kendall McComas, who would play Breezy Brisbane Unlike the mid-1920s period, McGowan sustained the quality of the series with the help of the several regular cast members and the Roach writing staff. [55] In 2008, a Darla Hood impostor, Mollie Barron, died claiming to have appeared as Darla in Our Gang. In 1994, Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures released The Little Rascals, a feature film based loosely on the series and featuring interpretations of classic Our Gang shorts, including Hearts are Thumps, Rushin' Ballet, and Hi'-Neighbor! [19] Theater owners then were wary of booking shorts focused on a black boy,[19] and the series ended after just one entry, The Pickaninny, was produced. The characters of Alfalfa, Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky, Darla, Froggy, Butch, Woim, and Waldo were especially well known. Also at this time, the Our Gang cast acquired an American Bulldog with a ring around one eye, originally named Pansy but soon known as Pete the Pup, the most famous Our Gang pet. The characters in this series are well-known cultural icons, and identified solely by their first names. The 80 sound shorts were made available across twenty-seven VHS volumes (one volume had the MGM short Waldo's Last Stand which was public domain to Publication date. He had an eye for what was funny, a creative mind and a vision fo… There are many unofficial Our Gang and Little Rascals home video collections available from several other distributors, comprising shorts (both silent and sound) which have fallen into the public domain. See more ideas about rascal, gang, comedy short films. MGM prepared to distribute its own Our Gang shorts to television in 1957,[45] and offers for the shorts to stations began to be made in 1958. meta title will be here. 20min | Comedy, Family, Short | 12 November 1932 (USA) Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present. [13] A later Our Gang spin-off film, Curley (1947), was banned by the Memphis, Tennessee censor board for showing black and white children in school together, a characteristic common to even the earlier shorts. The first cast of Our Gang was recruited primarily of children recommended to Roach by studio employees, with the exception of Ernie Morrison, under contract to Roach. The film was directed by Alex Zamm, and starred Jet Jurgensmeyer as Spanky, Drew Justice as Alfalfa, Eden Wood as Darla, and Doris Roberts as the kids' adopted Grandma. In 2014, Universal Pictures released a direct-to-video film, The Little Rascals Save the Day. The four black child actors who held main roles in the series were Ernie Morrison, Allen Hoskins, Matthew Beard and Billie Thomas. Republic would release Little Rascals VHS volumes for retail purchase in non-comprehensive collections through the rest of the 1980s and early 1990s. Our Gang would be used by MGM as a training ground for future feature directors: Sidney, Edward Cahn and Cy Endfield all worked on Our Gang before moving on to features. Glove Taps also featured the first appearance of Darwood Kaye as the bespectacled, foppish Waldo. The television rights to the silent Pathé Our Gang comedies were sold to National Telepix and other distributors, who distributed the films under titles such as The Mischief Makers and Those Lovable Scallawags with Their Gangs. All these shorts and feature films(mostly silent), including: 1. Currently, ViacomCBS, King World's latest successor, handles distribution rights. Through his studios passed some of the greatest silent film stars of his generation: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harold Lloyd, James Finlayson and Charley Chase. By then, all but 11 of the Roach-era sound films were available on home video. In 1983, with the VHS home video market growing, Blackhawk began distributing Little Rascals VHS tapes available through catalogue only. [56] Another is Bill English, a grocery store employee who appeared on the October 5, 1990, episode of the ABC investigative television newsmagazine 20/20 claiming to have been Buckwheat. The 1930 Our Gang short Pups is Pups was an inductee of the 2004 National Film Registry list.[52]. Our Service. Gordon Douglas was loaned out from Hal Roach Studios to direct The Little Ranger and another early MGM short, Aladdin's Lantern, while MGM hired newcomer George Sidney as the permanent series director. [68] The television rights for the MGM Our Gang shorts belong to Warner Bros. Television Distribution, and the video rights to Warner Home Video. Sidney Kibrick, the younger brother of Leonard Kibrick, played Butch's crony, Woim. The Our Gang series (later known as "The Little Rascals") was created by Hal Roach in 1922, and continued production until 1944.Mickey is in the hospital to have his tonsils removed. The RetroFilm Vault offers broadcast quality public domain movies to media professionals and television broadcasters. Other members in these years included Mary Ann Jackson's brother Dickie Jackson, John "Uh-huh" Collum, and Tommy Bond. [36] The MGM entries are considered by many film historians, and the Our Gang children themselves, to be lesser films than the Roach entries. In the 1950s, home movie distributor Official Films released many of the Hal Roach talkies on 16 mm film. This and other films was not for public viewing while classified as sensitive material. In 1939, Mickey Gubitosi (later known by the stage name of Robert Blake) replaced Eugene "Porky" Lee, who had matured too quickly. Another 1930 short, Teacher's Pet, marked the first use of the Our Gang theme song, "Good Old Days", composed by Shield and featuring a notable saxophone solo. Girl Shy and Hot Water starring Harold Lloyd 3. No Noise is the 17th Our Gang short subject comedy released. After the girl and her mother left the office, Roach looked out of his window to a lumberyard across the street, where he saw some children having an argument. In the late 1940s, he created a new film property in the Our Gang mold and forfeited his right to buy back the name Our Gang to obtain permission to produce two Cinecolor featurettes, Curley and Who Killed Doc Robbin. He won parts in a number of outside features, appeared in many of the now-numerous Our Gang product endorsements and spin-off merchandise items, and popularized the expressions "Okey-dokey!" Shorts by Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, and “Our Gang” (later “Little Rascals”) 4. Hatley and Shield's jazz-influenced scores, first featured in Our Gang with 1930s Pups is Pups, became recognizable trademarks of Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, and the other Roach series and films. As MGM retained the rights to the Our Gang trademark following their purchase of the production rights, some of the Roach-produced films were re-released to theaters and syndicated for television under the title The Little Rascals. Please Register or login to share.. In 2009, Warner Home Video released all 52 MGM Our Gang shorts in a compilation titled The Our Gang Collection: 1938–1942 (though it contains the 1943–44 shorts as well) for manufacture-on-demand (MOD) DVD and digital download. These productions did not appear to be affiliated with Hal Roach, but often used storylines from the shorts of the period, and sometimes went so far as to identify themselves as being Our Gang productions. Later that year, the first 10 Cabin Fever volumes were re-released on VHS with new packaging, and the first two volumes were released on DVD as The Little Rascals: Volumes 1–2. Some stations bought both packages and played them alongside each other under the Little Rascals show banner. Then copyright that for the next 95 years. Public Domain » Best Films; Movies ... Darla and the Little Rascals put on a show to sell Waldo's lemonade. [6], The Our Gang series is notable for being one of the first in cinema history in which African Americans and White Americans were portrayed as equals. [13] Early in existence of Our Gang, these theater owners complained to Pathé that Morisson and Hoskins had too much screen time and their prominence in the shorts would offend white audiences. When Cap’s back pension finally comes, he treats the kids of Bleak Hill Boarding School to a day at the local amusement park. This book has 36 pages and was uploaded by Dell4c on July 15, 2013. From 1982 to 1984, Hanna-Barbera Productions produced a Saturday morning cartoon version of The Little Rascals, which aired on ABC during The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show (later The Monchichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show). Tommy Bond and Wally Albright left in the middle of 1934; Jackie Lynn Taylor and Marianne Edwards would depart by 1935. Saturday Public Domain Movie Fest; Merch Store; Subscribe; Posts Tagged Alfalfa. Fatty Arbuckle’s Stupid, But Brave 5. In 1954, the Our Gang shorts, repackaged as The Little Rascals, appeared on television for the first time, introducing a new generation of fans to the antics of America's favorite kiddie comedians. Sonar acquired these after absorbing Hal Roach Studios in 1988, and both Roach's estate and Cabin Fever Entertainment in the late 1990s.[66]. Using a modified version of the series' original name, Roach repackaged 79 of the 80 sound Our Gang shorts as The Little Rascals. As part of the arrangement with MGM to continue Our Gang, Roach received the clearance to produce an Our Gang feature film, General Spanky, hoping that he might move the series to features as was done with Laurel & Hardy. Little Rascals Our Gang War Feathers 1926 While on a cross-country train trip, the Our Gang kids drive the rest of the passengers crazy with a never-ending game of cowboys and Indians. Eventually Our Gang talent scouting employed large-scale national contests in which thousands of children tried out for an open role. While some may have preferred the original TV show of the same name, we think … These shorts marked the departure of Jackie Condon, who had been with the group from the beginning of the series. Approved | 20min | Family, Short, Comedy | 3 November 1934 (USA) The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave. Currently, the rights to the Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts are divided. The first twelve volumes of Cabin Fever's The Little Rascals VHS set were released on July 6, 1994, followed by nine more on July 11, 1995, coinciding with the theatrical and home video releases of Universal's 1994 feature. Director Fred C. Newmeyer helmed the first pilot film, entitled Our Gang, but Roach scrapped Newmeyer's work and had former fireman Robert F. McGowan reshoot the short. A number of groups, companies, and entities have been inspired by or named after Our Gang. Public domain movies can be broadcast on television, streamed, sold on home video, and used as stock footage in other productions. Short films by Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, and Our Gang (later Little Rascals) Cartoons including Felix the Cat(the character first appeared in a 1919 cartoon) Marlene Dietrich’s film debut, a bit part in the German silent comedy The Little Napoleon; also … In 1930, Roach began production on The Boy Friends, a short-subject series which was essentially a teenaged version of Our Gang. Less notable imitations series include The McDougall Alley Gang (Bray Productions, 1927–1928), The Us Bunch and Our Kids. [13], In their adult years, actors Morrison, Beard, and Thomas defended the series, arguing that the white characters in the series were similarly stereotyped: the "freckle-faced kid", the "fat kid", the "neighborhood bully", the "pretty blond girl", and the "mischievous toddler". In todays time & laws this film could be considered as child porn by some In the early 2000s, the 71 films in the King World package were re-edited, reinstating many (though not all) edits made in 1971 and the original Our Gang title cards. Turner Entertainment acquired the classic MGM library in 1986, and the 1938–44 MGM-produced Our Gang shorts were shown on Turner's TBS and TNT cable networks for many years as early-morning programming filler, with a regular slot on Sundays at 6 am ET on TNT. The folk-rock group Spanky and Our Gang was named for the troupe because lead singer Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane's last name was similar to that of George "Spanky" McFarland. Es gibt auch einige inoffizielle Sammlungen mit Our-Gang- und Little-Rascals-Filmen, die heute „Public domain“ sind. However, by 1934, many movie theater owners were increasingly dropping two-reel (20-minute) comedies like Our Gang and the Laurel & Hardy series from their bills and running double feature programs instead. Other Our Gang members appearing in the early sound shorts included Buddy McDonald, Clifton Young, and Shirley Jean Rickert. [2] The children, some too young to read, rarely saw the scripts; instead, McGowan would explain the scene to be filmed to each child immediately before it was shot, directing the children using a megaphone and encouraging improvisation. In 1949, MGM sold Roach the back catalog of 1927–1938 Our Gang silent and talking shorts, while retaining the rights to the Our Gang name, the 52 Our Gang films it produced, and the feature General Spanky. Cooper soon won the lead role in Paramount's feature film Skippy, and Roach sold his contract to MGM in 1931. Public Domain Movies Library. They are grouped by the era during which they joined the series. Many also appeared in a group cameo appearance in the all-star comedy short The Stolen Jools (1931). This led to rumors of an Our Gang/Little Rascals "curse", rumors further popularized by a 2002 E! Hi-Neighbor!, released in March 1934, ended the hiatus and was the first series entry directed by Meins, a veteran of the once-competing Buster Brown short subject series. [51], The children's work in the series was largely unrewarded in later years, although Spanky McFarland was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame posthumously in 1994. Jackie Cooper left Our Gang in early 1931 at the cusp of another major shift in the lineup, as Farina Hoskins, Chubby Chaney, and Mary Ann Jackson all departed a few months afterward. Tommy Bond, an off-and-on member of the gang since 1932, returned to the series as Butch beginning with the 1937 short Glove Taps. "[24] Daniels and Kornman were very popular and were often paired in Our Gang and a later teen version of the series called The Boy Friends, which Roach produced from 1930 to 1932. 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