Hal roach jr wiki

Hal Roach's Streamliners are a series of featurettecomedy films created by Hal Roach that are longer than a short subject and shorter than a feature film, not exceeding 50 minutes in length.

Hal roach jr wiki

Twenty of the 29 features that Roach produced for United Artists were in the streamliner format. They usually consisted of five 10-minute reels.^[2]

History

Roach's studio initially produced comedy short subjects, but in 1935, he sensed that short subjects were declining in popularity^[3] as the double-feature format was popular in theaters.

By 1939 Roach noticed that Hollywood's major "A" features were becoming longer and more ambitious, creating a problem for theater owners who couldn't fit a second feature into their daily programs. When Roach began producing films for United Artists, he devised the idea of shorter-length featurettes that he called "streamliners" (after the public's infatuation with the modern and fast streamliner trains).

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