The original film elements were in poor shape, and the company, now called Hallmark Entertainment, had little interest in releasing them to DVD. Meanwhile, rights to the Roach library passed to Hallmark, the greeting card company, and Laurel & Hardy's Roach titles pretty much languished there, unloved, year after year. But those very quickly went out-of-print and even now several volumes command premium collector's prices. Featuring the team's silent films, they were among the very first DVD releases of any kind, with Volume One released in December 1998. The DVD era had started off well, with Image's The Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy series. The beloved comedy team's best films, those made for producer Hal Roach from the mid-1920s through 1940, were maddeningly stuck in a kind of apathetic corporate limbo. The last dozen or so years have been mighty rough on Laurel & Hardy fans.
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