Ptarmigan Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Well, it certainly made me laugh! Enjoy! Why I want a concertina Cheers Dick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereward Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Well, it certainly made me laugh! Enjoy! Why I want a concertina Cheers Dick It looks to me that that concertina would be worth having. Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewish Leprechaun Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 This was great, my great grandfather directed some movies with Laurel and Hardy. I wonder if he did this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptarmigan Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 This was great, my great grandfather directed some movies with Laurel and Hardy. I wonder if he did this one. WOW! I just wonder if younger folk today actually 'GET' Laurel & Hardy, or if you have to be of a certain vintage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewish Leprechaun Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Well, I don't know about having to be of a certain vintage. I'm rather youngish (17) and I get them. Although I was brought up with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptarmigan Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 Well, I don't know about having to be of a certain vintage. I'm rather youngish (17) and I get them. Although I was brought up with them. Clearly you must, just naturally, have good taste then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catty Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 (edited) I don't get it.. The whole pretext is just...SILLY! The two men didn't even appear distressed that they were "stranded" on that buoy...and I think the concertina playing was fake ... You see a lot of fake stuff on youtube, though. Edited December 8, 2008 by catty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 I don't get it.. The whole pretext is just...SILLY! The two men didn't even appear distressed that they were "stranded" on that buoy...and I think the concertina playing was fake ... You see a lot of fake stuff on youtube, though. I wouldn't be too sure of that. Stan Laurel was born in England, and rumor has it that he bought one (or more) on a trip back home and played it for real. This list has credited him with playing it in the movie "The Big Noise" from 1944. The whole premis of the movie is that an inventor hid a bomb in the concertina, and the scene is the last one of the movie after they survived the explosion sinking an enemy sub. As only a scene from a movie it's just out of the context of the rest of the movie. It was made a long time before music videos. It's entirely possible it could have been done in the studio after filming the scene. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036644/soundtrack Here is another scene frome earlier in the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPxX8SJT2b8&fmt=22 It looks like a Scholar concertina to me. It was directed by Malcom St. Clair. Thanks Leo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catty Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Oh, well okay then. I guess it's plausible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptarmigan Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 Here is another scene frome earlier in the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPxX8SJT2b8&fmt=22 Leo Hey Leo, thanks for posting that 2nd clip. You can clearly see that he isn't actually playing it in that clip, but who cares, he's doing a pretty good job of miming it. We were asked to play some music recently, for an advert the Irish Tourist Board were filming in & around Bushmills. Anyway, they had a big cheap Concertina as a prop, which they gave to a young actor, but it actually took him THREE tries before he finally managed to hold it the right way up & the right way round. He should have taken some tips from Stan's on screen playing technique! Incidentally, the advert won't be shown here, but all you guys 'n gals across the water should watch out for it & please let me know if you see it. ... & no, I'm not the EEJIT trying to play the Concertina, I'm on the Fiddle! Cheers Dick P.S. Catty, I trust you were just being sarcastic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m3838 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 You can clearly see that he isn't actually playing it in that clip, but who cares, he's doing a pretty good job of miming it. Of course he's not playing it, and not even miming it. He's doing an act with it. And the actual playing was, as always, done with chromatic instrument. How else did he get half step "wrong" notes? As Laurel and Hardy act, you don't have to have specifically good taste to see the cheapness of the act and redundance of most of of the episodes. I guess, zanity was gone from American cinema, when sound came in. I saw a movie about piano player, born on the ship, raised by black sailor, who died from the accident. The crew raised the boy and he became self taught piano player. In the end he hid in the old rusty ship that was dinamited, and went down with it. Very tastefully done, but extremely improbable plot, great acting etc. In one fleeting episode this guy meets poor Irish immigrant with stupendous 30+ button Anglo, who was finishing some musical phrase, when camera zoomed on him. Piano player later had an eye on immigrant's daughter. It was one one of the two movies, where real concertina was actually played in the movie, however briefly. What's the name of that movie, anybody? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptarmigan Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 :lol: Ha Ha I can't believe how seriously some folks look at an old clip like this! I suppose for every million people who saw that movie, there would always have been one who was sitting thinking, hey that guy is not really playing that Concertina, or shoot me that's the sound of an English not an Anglo Concertina! Just like there'd always be one saying, hey there's a saddle under that old indian blanket on that horse in the old black & white Cowboy movie, or like all the fuss there was back home in Scotland when Braveheart first came out, cause any episode of Star Treck was probably more historically correct than Smell Gibbon's movie! But you know what ... WHO CARES! I, like most folks I suspect, go to the movies to be entertained, simple as that. Braveheart was a brilliant movie, but that's all it was, just a wee bit of entertainment to help us take our minds off our mortgage & all those bills, just for a couple of hours. If I want education I go to a library or night classes or the history channel & if I want musical enlightenment I go to a concert, I certainly don't go to a Laurel & Hardy movie. The guys were very funny slapstick comedians, of their time. I don't expect all the more sophisticated folks of the great C21st to buy into that humour, but I, as someone who grew up in the early days of the first B & W TVs, can look back on those movies with a certain fondness. Call me old fashioned if you like. But if you do, then my reply would be to mimic the lines of one Clark Gable, in Gone with the Wind, when he said: ... "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Saints preserve us from the nitpickers & begredgers! Cheers Dick P.S. Of course the plots were improbable, after all, they're usually so much funnier than any probable plot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 ..........What's the name of that movie, anybody? The Legend of 1900 http://cinemaxx.ru/7/4948-legenda-o-pianis...nd-of-1900.html It's at 43 minits Thanks Leo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catty Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 (edited) :lol: Ha Ha I can't believe how seriously some folks look at an old clip like this! ...hey that guy is not really playing that Concertina... For the record, Dick, I was facetiously complaining of its "fakiness" (I didn't mention the dancing fish.. ) I really do "get" L&H--their brand of dry, deadpaned, absurdity is among my favorites (even if Stan was faking.. ) Edited December 8, 2008 by catty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill N Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 It was one one of the two movies, where real concertina was actually played in the movie, however briefly.What's the name of that movie, anybody? I think it was called "The Legend of 1900". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimLucas Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Why I want a concertina Quick! Can anybody tell us how many times that particular Laurel & Hardy sequence has been posted previously in the C.net Forums? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDT Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 This was great, my great grandfather directed some movies with Laurel and Hardy. I wonder if he did this one. WOW! I just wonder if younger folk today actually 'GET' Laurel & Hardy, or if you have to be of a certain vintage? I prefer Harold Lloyd IMO http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oNciu2l5Opg I find Laurel & Hardy a bit...annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Day Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 I find Laurel & Hardy a bit...annoying. These are my hero's. The best double act ever H B E A N (HARD BOILED EGGS AND NUTS) Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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