THE MUSIC BOX, Comedy Film Short, Laurel & Hardy, Oscar 1932 🎹

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- Classic comedy! Oscar winner, short film,1932. Released April 16, 1932.

- Like the legendary Sisyphus, 2 delivery men struggle to pull a large crated piano up a seemingly insurmountable flight of stairs.
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Wiki. The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932. It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film, which depicts the pair attempting to move a piano up a long flight of steps, won the 1st Academy Award for Best Live Action Short (Comedy) in 1932. In 1997, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

The film is widely seen as the most iconic Laurel and Hardy short, with the featured stairs becoming a popular tourist attraction. The steps, 133 with multiple landings, which are the focal point of The Music Box, still exist in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles, near the Laurel and Hardy Park. (See Photos, Wiki). A plaque commemorating the film was set into one of the lower steps...
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