The Genius of Leroy Shield by Daniel Thomas Moran SD 480p

A Special Program which aired on Long Island Public Radio in 1998 about Leroy Shield who composed all the music for the Hal Roach Studios productions of Laurel and Hardy as well as Our Gang.

[@musimages23]

I have done a few collages that I am very very pleased with... he wqas a genius!! I OVE HIS ARR and the beau hunks re arr. thank you soooo muc for this. look up my dad as well?

[@bralingii1635]

We need this as background music in real life!

[@7latnwa]

it amazes me that the people who touch so many generations of people are overlooked by the very studios that employed them. I would love to see a film about this mans life & work. Why hasn't this already been done?

[@danielthomasmoran]

My belief and understanding is that he was among many people who worked in the background in those early days of film making and were simply happy to be getting a paycheck. Sadly, we are also a country in love with the new. But when I was a kid growing up near New York City, Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, and The Three Stooges were on TV every single day. They also showed old cartoons like Betty Boop and Popeye which were made many years earlier. Kids like me like me fell in love with them and stayed in love with them. How lucky for me!