"Oh, yes I can!"
Both include the newspaper with the "HONOLULU LINER SINKING!! FOUNDERING IN TYPHOON" headline!
Wish I could figure out an easy way to post my screenshots on here!!
CHEERS!
Correct! That link drove me crazy for almost 40 years! Why? It was mentioned in a Blackhawk catalog when they first released SPRUCIN' UP, but they didn't say what the link was! I didn't have easy access to see SPRUCIN' UP back in the 70s, except when it was shown on TV, but in the King World version, which usually had edits (though not sure about edits for that one.) I did already have a copy of SOTD in Super 8 at the time, though. I could never make the connection, until someone finally mentioned it online. And I've had a copy of SPRUCIN' UP on Super 8 for close to 30 years now!
What the connection implies is that the events of SPRUCIN' UP happened on the day after that Honolulu liner sank! Or later in the day depending on how often that newspaper published editions. But it is an EXTRA edition, so it was published sometime after the morning edition. It also brings up the question: did SOTD actually take place in 1935, or did SPRUCIN' UP take place in 1933? I looked at the video and I can't clearly see the date on the newspaper.
BTW, when Mrs. Laurel (Dorothy Christy) comes in to see Mae with the newspaper in hand, you can again see the sound stage briefly at the top of the screen! Now
I have too much time on my hands! I love how in old movies the "newsboys" often say "extry" instead of "extra." I would trade today's technology for the days when newspapers -- physical, printed newspapers -- were one of the main ways to get news, outside of radio and the evening TV news (before all day cable news channels like CNN and FOX News.) Now you need to take out a second mortgage to buy a newspaper everyday at the news stand (if you can find a news stand.). A yearly subscription with delivery costs less, and I did that about 10 years ago for the WALL STREET JOURNAL, but after the first year they tripled the price or something like that!