Digital technology now permits us to achieve repairs once thought impossible" so that this film "looks and sounds as it did nearly 90 years ago." Restoring these films includes not only finding the pictorially and physically best surviving copies, but authentic content such as day-and-date title sequences lost when reissue distributors appended their own credit cards." For Perfect Day, "the original soundtrack (replaced in the mid-1930s with new music mixes) had to be recovered. "No body of classic comedy has been as badly abused as the Laurel and Hardy negatives, mercilessly pushed through laboratory meat grinders for decades to extract every showprint to garner every last nickel from a relentless audience.
The archive "continues its mission to save the Hal Roach films of Laurel and Hardy," Head of Preservation Scott MacQueen wrote. The UCLA Film and Television Archive screened a newly restored version of the film at the 2019 UCLA Festival of Preservation. Īdding the soundtrack in 1937 to the existing film resulted in a slight reduction of the correct frame ratio: several scenes feature a slightly cropped picture at the top and left hand sides to allow for inclusion of the soundtrack strip. The 1929 version was considered lost until the 2011 DVD release Laurel and Hardy: The Essential Collection, when the original Vitaphone disc track sans the incidental music became available. The Roach Studios would reissue the film in 1937 with an added music score being utilized at the time in other Roach comedies. The original 1929 release of Perfect Day contained no music other than that used over the opening credits. Perfect Day was written in May 1929 and filmed between June 1–8, 1929. Clara Guiol as wife of neighbor across the street.
Harry Bernard as neighbor across the street.
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