February 16, 1940 –
A truncated version of A Chump at Oxford (the second to last Laurel and Hardy feature) was released on this date.
The short version of the film was originally in four reels, a “streamliner” designed to compete with theaters’ new double feature concept. Hal Roach produced only a few of these hybrids, and added the dinner party sequence later to bring it up to it’s feature length.
The Haus of Dcaligari 