YES!!!!! I used to watch these on tv with my Dad when they were shown on Saturday’s. He’d seen them all in the cinema back in the 30’s when they were shown before the main feature.
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My grandfather turned me onto this series when I was kid in the early 80s. He himself was a kid when the original run happened and saw them in cinemas.He got the VHS collection. I got the DVD set some years back, but this promises to be a game changer for fans. I CANNOT WAIT!
If not for the Fantastic Four (Spanky, Darla, Buckwheat and Alf-Alfa), Wheezer might've been the mascot (well, him and Petey).
Stymie made the cut when they did that 90s adaptation (and he's in the blu-ray trailer), so he ain't far off.
No. They haven't even opened the crowd-funding campaign yet. We'll have to keep an eye on the indie go-go campaign or the Classicflix website itself for the announcement(s). Classicflix: ClassicFlix - Only the Classics - ClassicFlix Indie-go-go campaign: Little Rascals Preservation & Restoration Project
As a kid in the 50's, they ran these shorts every day on TV, so I got to see most of them. Of course the best, and most well known, was "The Kid From Borneo" from 1933. In the 80's it pretty much disappeared due to it being completely un P-C, and possibly racist, but in truth it really is hilarious. Who can forget "Yum, Yum eat em up ?" Here's the full 18 minute short...
"I don't know what this is, but let's see you drink it..." Love this short. Always enjoyed baby Spanky over older.
One of my high school teachers showed this in class (and I don't even remember why. It wasn't a film class or anything). At the time I was surprised because I don't think I had seen it before despite being a fan as a kid. Any way, the whole class was dying laughing. But that was the early 90s. Probably couldn't do that today. Ah well. This generation's loss.
They took it out of the TV package way back in 1972, when King World put out expurgated versions of the shorts to quell potential complaints of "racism".
If you watched on a station that leased both the Roach "Little Rascals" and MGM "Our Gang" shorts, you knew you were in for a long ten minutes when you saw the MGM lion and heard "Bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-buuuuuuuuuuuum!"
