Miscellaneous Essays & Past Press Releases
 
 
December 2011 Laurel & Hardy Documentary by Andreas Baum
August 2011 Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection Press Release + Addenda Essay by Richard W. Bann
May 2011 Our Gang's Jackie Cooper Passes at Age 88
April 2011 FILM PRESERVATION – ANOTHER FINE MESS by Richard W. Bann
January 2011

MAX DAVIDSON - BLOW BY BLOW by Richard W. Bann

October 2010 Ulverston birthplace blunder is blamed on ‘urban myth’ from The Westmorland Gazette (pdf)
Tourism bosses admit Stan Laurel mistake from The Westmorland Gazette (pdf)
August 2010 LAUREL & HARDY: THE HAT FACTS (Part 1) by Tyler St. Mark (pdf)
June 2010 The Sons of the Desert Convention 2010
  Dorothy de Borba dies at 85 - Press Release
February 2010 Laurel & Hardy - From the Forties Forward - book review by Richard W. Bann
December 2009 Where the Family Goes to See the Show by Richard W. Bann
November 2009 'New' Laurel & Hardy Footage by Richard W. Bann
October 2009 Charlie Hall Picture Archive Book Review + Pictures & Captions by Richard W. Bann
August 2009 Last Film Footage of Stan Laurel Discovered - Press Release
August 2009 John Hughes & Hal Roach by Richard W. Bann
June 2009 Dorothy Layton
May 2009 Calling Car Thirteen...Calling Car One-Three... by Richard W. Bann
April 2009 Ulverston Statue Unveiling
February 2009 Poster Sold for $6,300 by Richard W. Bann
October 2001 Found! Lost Our Gangster -- In 2 L&H Pix Part II by Richard W. Bann
September 2001 Found! Lost Our Gangster -- In 2 L&H Pix Part I by Richard W. Bann
August 2001 The Tree in a Test Tube by Richard W. Bann
July 2000 Laurel Letters sold at Auction by Richard W. Bann
November 2000 Different Version: Battle of the Century by Richard W. Bann
October 2000 More Great Hal Roach Background Music Coming
September 2000 More 'Rogue Song' Footage Found by Richard W. Bann
December 1999 Millennium Greetings by Richard W. Bann
May - Nov. 1999 Letters by Lois Laurel-Hawes and Richard W. Bann
November 1998 Fragments of Lost Film Discovered in New England
October 1998 Leo McCarey At Hal Roach Studios by Richard W. Bann (abridged)
Leo McCarey At Hal Roach Studios by Richard W. Bann (complete article)
September 1998 Today's Comedians Pay Tribute to Laurel and Hardy
September 1998 London Premier of Way Out West - Press Release
1998 Restoration by Richard W. Bann
(Including an excerpt from the limited edition video "No Date of Expiry" in which Richard W. Bann compares the original and restored versions of THE MUSIC BOX.)