Friday Night Video

Ok, this is not the video I had planned on posting tonight. I'll do that other one some other time. Tonight, I'll go with this one instead.

This one got on my radar because of a brief conversation I had with Sam when I got home today. I won't bother you with the particulars, but it included mention of this film.

When Sam was small, he struggled with language- both in expressing himself and in understanding others. He still does, but it is a world away from where it was.

Anyway, because of this barrier, I would look for things that we could watch together that were particularly visual, things where he didn't have to do a lot of processing while the action moved forward. And because he has a great sense of humor, I would look for comedies.

This was a big reason why we ended up watching a lot of Looney Tunes. There's not a lot of talking going on in those Road Runner cartoons. It was also why were watching and re-watching a lot of Mr. Bean. Language is not a big part of either of those.

One of our favorites, then and now, was the Laurel and Hardy film, "Big Business". If you haven't seen it before, you should take the eighteen minutes and sixteen seconds it takes to watch it. I enjoyed it long before Sam came along, and have enjoyed it even more since. I think it's my favorite Laurel and Hardy film.

Now, even if I'm watching it alone, I hear Sam's belly laugh. Hard as it is to imagine, that makes it even better.

Here you go...