Our Gang (also known as
The Little Rascals or
Hal Roach's Rascals) is a series of American
comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures. Created by comedy producer
Hal Roach, the series was produced between 1922 and 1944 and is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively natural way, as Roach and original director
Robert F. McGowan worked to film the unaffected, raw nuances apparent in regular children rather than have them imitate adult acting styles.