"The Second Hundred Years (a.k.a. The Second 100 Years) is a 1927 American silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. The team appeared in a total of 107 films between 1921 and 1951."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Hundred_Years_%28film%29

"Thrown in prison for a hundred years, the wrongfully-accused convicts, Little Goofy and Big Goofy, finally come up with an infallible plan to break free from their prison cell. Posing as an anarchic duo of undercover painters, the partners in crime paint everything in sight to elude a persistent policeman hot on their trail; but, in vain. Before long, as one thing leads to another, it's only natural that the boys wind up in a private high-society gathering dressed up as the visiting French dignitaries, Lecoque and Voitrex. Who are they kidding?"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018368/plotsummary

https://archive.org/details/the-second-100-years_1927

NB: the first film where the duo are billed as a team, although not yet as "Laurel and Hardy"