Babes in
Toyland Movies
- Stan
Laurel and Oliver Hardy made 106 films, 104 of which have been saved.
The Babes in Toyland Tent has access to about 70 of them.
- Most of
the films are two reelers, that is, they run about 20 minutes.
We usually run two two-reelers at meetings.
- The most
most memorable film is probably The
Music Box, in which the Boys struggle to carry a piano up
a tremendously long flight of steps to a house at the top.
- Babes in
Toyland,
also known as March of the
Wooden Soldiers,
is a feature-length film. It is set in mythical Toyland with
all
the Mother Goose characters. It is a musical and is often
regarded as a Christmas movie. The Boys plan Stannie Dee and
Ollie Dum.
- Many
of the shorts (two-reelers) are silent, but music was almost always
provided by local talent. In reality, the silents were never silent.