In this iconic Academy Award-winning short, Stan and Ollie’s Sisyphean efforts to deliver a piano to the home at the top of an impossibly long staircase (a public way in Silver Lake now known as the “Music Box Steps”) are stymied by passersby, the police and the topography itself, with unfortunate results for the titular instrument and its intended recipient. —Nina Rao
Director: James Parrott. Production: Hal Roach Studios, Inc. Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Producer: Hal Roach. Cinematographer: Len Powers. Screenwriter: H.M. Walker. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert, Charlie Hall, Lilyan Irene. 35mm, b/w, 29 min.
Restored from the 35mm nitrate picture and track negatives, the 35mm nitrate work print and a 35mm nitrate work track. Laboratory services by The Cinemalab, Audio Mechanics, DJ Audio, Simon Daniel Sound. Special thanks to: Sonar Entertainment; Katie Trainor—the Museum of Modern Art.
