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Just to provide further clarification, the existing home video editions of THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY (1927) contain the following:
STAN AND OLLIE LOOK AND SOUND BETTER THAN EVER! New 2K and 4K digital restorations from original 35mm nitrate, Laurel and Hardy's classic comedies are here in the best quality since their first release! Two features and 17 shorts, including the legendary pie-fight silent film "The Battle of the Century," making its video debut and nearly complete for the first time in over 90 years! In contrast, the unreleased near complete version of THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY (1927) includes the following: Extras include a number of charming vintage interviews conducted by Randy Skretvedt and filmed with his Super 8 Kodachrome I’ll allow readers to wonder through this release at their own speed. It’s not a sit down – one and done situation. In Leonard Maltin’s Movie Comedy Teams, Billy Gilbert, who appeared in nine Laurel and Hardy films, shares an anecdote I fear is too good to be true, in which Richard Burton informed wife Elizbeth Taylor that after having done several films together, he wanted to do his next one alone. “We don’t want to become another Laurel and Hardy,” he supposedly told her. Liz’s response: “What’s so bad about Laurel and Hardy?”For those who love the works of Laurel & Hardy, we owe a great debt of gratitude to finally have these equally films on Blu-ray, with Serge Bromberg and the late David Shepard at the top of the list. Normally, I would consider these restorations, but as has been noted in other threads, that term no longer applies. For more about Laurel & Hardy - The Definitive Restorations and the Laurel & Hardy - The Definitive Restorations Blu-ray release, see Laurel & Hardy - The Definitive Restorations Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on June 28, 2020 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.5 out of 5.
Consists of less than 4 minutes of footage from the condensed pie fight footage, lifted from Robert Youngson's THE GOLDEN AGE OF COMEDY (1957) silent comedy compilation feature.
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The story here is the passion, work and funding that has gone into creating Year One, which not long ago would have been considered an impossible task. Very few of the silent films of Laurel and Hardy's negatives survive, and the available elements scattered throughout the world are always mediocre or unwatchable. It took three years to gather all the surviving prints of these shorts, compare them shot by shot and give them the best digital restoration possible. Today, these invisible films look as young as they did 95 years ago. A world premiere for all the Laurel and Hardy fans. compared to many contemporary outings) along with a glut of shorts, including a reconstructed version of The Battle of the Century, Of key interest to fans will be a slide show reconstruction of “Hats Off,” still missing in action. This short, with Laurel and Hardy as washing machine deliverymen struggling to navigate a steep staircase, is in the DNA of “The Music Box,” the team’s lone Oscar-winning short. Disc One contains 17 one-reel and two-reel comedies produced between 1918 and 1925 featuring Stan Laurel. Laurel was theater-trained in Scotland, starting out in vaudeville as Charlie Chaplin’s understudy, and venturing to the United States full time in 1917. Laurel made three films with comedian Larry Semon, the second in the series is included here, Bears and Bad Men in 1918. Stan was not the main star of these films, Semon was, although he did have more than just a supporting role in the film. Interestingly, Larry Semon’s studio closed down due to the Spanish Influenza outbreak at the time. For the next several years, Stan Laurel appeared in several one and two reel shorts at various studios until landing a contract at Hal Roach Studios in 1926, where he would eventually be teamed with Oliver Hardy.
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