a single pie would be a dreadful cliché, "Let’s give them so many pies that there never will be room for any more pie pictures in the whole history of the movies." Early in the film, a young Lou Costello can be seen as a member of the prizefight crowd. Lost film status For many years, footage from the climactic pie fight was the only known surviving material from The Battle of the Century until the opening reel with the boxing match was discovered in 1979 by Richard Feiner. However, the sequence in the park involving Eugene Pallette as the insurance salesman was missing, as was the final gag in which a policeman receives a pie in his face and chases Laurel and Hardy down the street in the fadeout. What is believed to be the entire film was once broadcast on Spanish television (station TVE1) during the 1970s, including scenes of a customer in a barber's chair receiving a pie in the face while being shaved and a man buying two pies to participate in the pie fight. In June 2015, it was announced at the Mostly Lost film workshop in Culpeper, Virginia that the second reel of The Battle of the Century had been rediscovered by film collector Jon Mirsalis as a 16mm print from the original 35mm negative. The reel was found in the film collection of the late Gordon Berkow, who had acquired the collection of the late Robert Youngson, the writer and director of several Laurel and Hardy film compilations. Youngson had received the reel as a preview print while working on his 1957 film compilation The Golden Age of Comedy. The film was initially restored by Lobster Films, with subsequent restoration by Jeff Joseph in partnership with the UCLA Film Archive. The first official screening occurred at the Telluride Film Festival in September 2015, followed by a screening at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2015. On April 8, 2017, the film was shown at the Toronto Silent Film Festival, with live accompaniment by Ben Model. On May 29, 2017, it was shown at the Southend Film Festival with live accompaniment by Adam Ramet. It was screened at the Mostly Lost film workshop in June 2016 on the one-year anniversary of the original announcement, with Mirsalis accompanying the film on piano. Cast Stan Laurel - Canvasback Clump Oliver Hardy - Manager Noah Young