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Released April 18, 1960
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly Joe
Normandy Productions
24.2 min. (TV Pilot)

While rehearsing a new opening bit for their children's television program THE THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK, Moe, Larry & Curly Joe are evicted by their landlady for cooking in the rooming house. Searching for a new apartment, the Stooges travel to Creepy Manor in Lompoc, where eccentric scientist Dr. Dolottle (Emil Sitka) asks them to stay and help him guard his new invention from enemy spies.

At the TV studio the next morning, the boys are on the air and introduce their new cartoon, THE SPAIN MUTINY. In this animated adventure, the Stooges answer a want ad from Christopher Columbus, and join him on his sea journey to prove that the world is not square. But Chris decides to nap for the duration, leaving Moe, Larry and Curly Joe to deal with a mutinous parrot named Feathers.

Filmed in color. SCRAPBOOK did not sell as a television pilot, but Norman Maurer reused much of the footage from the first half, and printed it in black & white for THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT (1962).

The color version of the pilot was distributed to theaters in September 1963 as two short subjects: 14 minute two-reeler with the apartment-hunting and Creepy Manor segments, and an 9-minute one-reeler showcasing the cartoon.

Although the script presents Emil Sitka's character as 'Prof. Doyle, he is called 'Prof. Dolottle' in the film, a pun on the popular children's story character 'Dr. Dolittle.'

In the scene with the spy carrying a sleeping Larry, Emil Sitka doubled for the actor playing Nick the butler.

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Avg. Rating: [6.25/10]
 
 

Joe DeRita
Curly Joe

Don Lamond
Narrator

Marjorie Eaton
Mrs. McGinnis

Edward Innes
Landlord

Emil Sitka
Prof. Dolottle

Albert Grazier
Nick the butler

Don Lamond
Stage manager

Norman Maurer
Cameraman

Mel Blanc
Feathers, voice

Mel Blanc
Christopher Columbus, voice

Harold Breen
Curly Joe double

Charles Cross
Moe double

Teddy Mangean
Larry double

The Eligibles
Theme singers


Elwood Ullman
Story and Screenplay

Hal A. McAlpin
Director of Photography

Nelson Cording
Camera Operator

Owen Marsh
Assistant Cameraman

Albert Scheving
Assistant Cameraman

Chuck Gladden
Film Editor

Leon Leon
Sound Recording

Larry Golding
Asst. Sound Recording

George Duning
Theme Music

Stanley Styne
Theme Lyrics

Frank Lombardo
Set Decoration

Harry Slott
Assistant Director

Dave Marks
2nd Assistant Director

Jack Angel
Costumer

Joe Franklin
Script Supervisor

Chick Chichetti
Property Master

Mel Sternlight
Assistant Propman

Fred Pastoue
2nd Grip

Robert Petzoldt
Chief Electrician

Bobby Sharp
Crab Operator

Bill Kane
Best Boy

Sascha Brastoff
Special Effects

Al Bertino
Story, animation

Dick Kinney
Story, animation

Sam Nicholson
Director, animation

Fred Madison
Animator

David Weidman
Backgrounds, animation

Norm Gottfredson
Layouts, animation


















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