Crocker Art Museum, Hr 1 Preview | "Babes in Toyland" Stop-motion Soldiers | ANTIQUES ROADSHOW | PBS

[@yaelrar.4460]

Oh my gosh. I watch Babes in Toyland (March of the Wooden Soldiers) every year! And the soldiers coming alive is the best part of the film. This is so cool.

[@ls-kk4pq]

Oh my gosh! Babes in toyland was one of my favorite childhood movies and now I’m seeing the little tiny soldiers in the roadshow! Way too cool!

[@supriyasou3722]

Laura looks ethereal in that gown

[@vitg7]

3:18 a good advice from the appraiser.

[@anthonylaudati]

EXTRAORDINARY!! Her grandfather must have been none other than the special effects wizard, Roy Seawright, who worked on a number of Laurel and Hardy films, as well as many others. Mr. Seawright had a long and distinguished career. I grew up with MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS, and the stop motion sequence he created is just MAGICAL. I hope the soldier models one day make it into the new museum being built by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences here in Los Angeles.

[@kevins.butler3402]

Yes..Roy was and is The Roach Studios top special effects magician.Kung Fu Femmes..And I share with you the hope that these pieces of film comedy and kids movie history will be donated to the new Movie History museum..in the near future.

[@kevinbutler1955NYC]

I didn't write that name..The Roach Studios special effects magician was Roy Seawright..Kung Fu Femmes.

[@lususlove]

I’m glad her mother gave one away to someone that took care of her :)

[@anthonylaudati]

I would love to find out how many wooden soldier models were built and who built them. In the film it's supposed to be 100 soldiers at 6 feet high. I suspect the prop department at Hal Roach Studios built the soldiers, but the detail on them is so incredibly fine, and it makes me wonder if the job was farmed out to a toy-making company. I read in one Laurel and Hardy book that the soldiers were made of a lead, which I think back in those days was common despite the hazards of lead.

[@block-headsoasis3356]

The appraiser gets her Laurel & Hardy facts wrong, but one of the toy soldiers WAS sold at auction on January 16th for $14,520 dollars.

[@selfdiscardedkingofruin7291]

Go find that drummer.

[@HunterShows]

"I'll give you 200 dollars..."

[@anthonylaudati]

With all due respect, the film historian got a few facts wrong. King Kong was released in 1933, not 1934. It was Babes in Toyland that was released in 1934. Also, she confused the Disney version of Babes in Toyland with the Laurel and Hardy version. Stan and Ollie are not shrunken down in their film. That was done in the Disney version with the two L&H clones and the leading man, Tommy Sands, who played Tom Piper.

[@patmoore1036]

Did the appraiser actually see the movie? At what point were L&H dressed as toy soldiers and shrunk down to toy size???

[@anthonylaudati]

The woman has confused with the 1961 Disney "Babes in Toyland" with the 1934 Hal Roach original, in which Laurel and Hardy are NOT shrunk down to toy size. The shrinking takes place in the Disney version. The toymaker, Tom Piper, and two Laurel-and-Hardy clones are shrunk by Barnaby (Ray Bolger, aka the Scarecrow from "Wizard of Oz".

[@matthewcooper288]

There is a split-shot in Laurel and Hardy's "Babes In Toyland" where the stock-motion animation of these soldiers is on the left hand side and Laurel and Hardy are on the right. And these soldiers are made to look as big as Laurel and Hardy. However L&H are not dressed as soldiers, that's the inaccurate bit.

[@jackiechapman8189]

First!!! I love these iconic soldiers very kewl piece of history...👍💕🔥🎥

[@horsejumpride8423]

March of the Wooden Soldiers - Laurel & Hardy (clip) kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHSYfaeYlpKXi68

[@wolfgangk1]

Her mother is entitled to give HER property to whomever she wants, even if it is "the help."

[@dielaughing73]

And the daughter is permitted to be disappointed. What a world!

[@HunterShows]

You say that like she didn't inherit it from her father. There are future generations, you know.

[@randolm7698]

I just rewatched this scene - and by far the majority of the figures were red. If all 10 figures the family got were blue it might mean they got all of the blue ones - or really close.

[@cancerfour69er]

Under Valued to say the least..

[@jmatt4life]

I know it as Babes in Toyland,!

[@muzammilkazi5526]

Are you guys interested in buying old Walkman stereo player I can give you my eBay link

[@kevins.butler3402]

Originally? the movie rights to this comic/children's opera was going to be picked up by RKO Radio Pictures in 1930..as a film vehicle for their top film comedy duo:Bert Wheeler and Bob Woolsey..but? For whatever the reason? The film deal was never made..it took three more year(1933)for Hal Roach to acquire the film rights to"Babes In Toyland" and for Stan Laurel and Frank Butler and Nick Grinde to write the script,Charlie Rogers and Gus Meins to direct the movie, the right cast, etc to make"Babes In Toyland"/"March Of The Wooden Soldiers"a perrenial Holiday classic.

[@MephProduction]

it's all about money sadly.

[@jimjohnson7931]

I wasnt happy. . .she still dont look happy.