The music box
1932 USA Black/White 30 Minutes
Release date: April 16, 1932
The film won an Oscar for Best live action short subject
There was a real piano in the crate. They needed it to be there for the weight. Source / More (Book)
A colored version is available on DVD
The film is a remake of the missing Laurel and Hardy short Hats off which was based on the Chaplin comedy His musical career (1914).
The encyclopedia about music box:
mechanical musical instrument that is sounded when tuned metal prongs, or teeth, mounted in a line on a flat comb are made to vibrate by contact with a revolving cylinder or disk that is driven by a clockwork mechanism. Source / More (Web)
Asteroids 2865 and 2866 are named after Laurel and Hardy.
June 16, 1890
Arthur Stanley Jefferson
February 23, 1965
January 18, 1892
Norvell Hardy
August 7, 1957
Stan Laurel performed in circuses and vaudeville before settling in the U.S. (1910), where he began appearing in silent movies.
Oliver Hardy owned a movie house and acted in silent comedy films from 1913.
They first appeared in the same Hal Roach film in Forty-five minutes from Hollywood (1926) and attained enormous popularity by the end of the silent era. They made a great number of shorts before their first long feature, Pardon Us (1931) (made largely out of economic necessity). In 1933 their The music box won an Academy award.
1961 Stan Laurel -> Honorary Award
John McCabe -> Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1965/1985)
Randy Skretvedt -> Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies (1987/1994)
Rob Stone ->Laurel or Hardy: The solo films of Stan Laurel and Oliver "Babe" Hardy (1996)
Scott MacGillivray -> Laurel and Hardy: From the Forties Forward (1998)
S. Louvish -> Stan and Ollie (2002)