Thursday 19 March 2009

Research - Laurel & Hardy



Looking at these scenes and looking at where visual comedy started you can see that with certain programs have not developed that far but are targeted at a different audience. An example of this is chuckle vision, this is an example because it is still very visual comedy orientated but where as Laurel & Hardy is aimed at the whole family chuckle vision is aimed at children.

Back t0 analysing Laurel & Hardy, these scenes are very humourious for there time that they were created. This is because there was no sound around this time because te technology had not developed, therefore the imagery has to be more visual pleasing.

A cleaver use of props in a time where special effects wasent even a concept is where the use of extra large props to make Laurel & Hardy look as if they were children. There is also the use of fake legs to make it look as if hardy has bent his legs right up his chest while he is falling down the stairs. And finally there is the use of breaking glass with the ques.

All these visual heavy techniques make it a humourious piece of film for the time that it was created with no sound.


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