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Using bonus footage from the 'Stan & Ollie' DVD, I cut together an exact shot by shot comparison with the original "At the Ball, That's All" dance in 'Way Out West'.

Atoll K (Utopia) was Laurel & Hardy's final film production made in 1951. While not considered to be their best work, I find some of the boys' solo scenes in the films to be some of the better ones in their post Hal Roach career. I wanted to highlight this so I included some of Leroy Shield's original music score that was used in their earlier comedies at Hal Roach Studios.

Prior to the launch of this channel, I had been working on a side project that involved Laurel & Hardy's final film—Atoll K (1951). The movie, which was a French-Italian co-production, never had its copyright filed in the United States—resulting in poorly duplicated copies to flood the home video & streaming market in the years that followed. The movie was plagued with production problems from the very start, compounded by communication issues between Stan & Ollie and the film's foreign speaking cast & crew. Despite their own declining health at the time, Laurel & Hardy worked tirelessly to better their scenes in the movie - reinventing some of their old gags and coming up with completely new ones as well.