Why "Soitenly," You're the Best DAD
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Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly Joe
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.
Joe DeRita
Curly Joe
Moe Howard
Moe
Larry Fine
Larry
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
Norman Maurer
Producer
Sidney Miller
Director
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
Jim Burnett
Boom
Paul Dunlap
Music
George Duning
Theme Music
Stanley Styne
Theme Lyrics
Frank Lombardo
Set Decoration
Harry Slott
Assistant Director
Dave Marks
2nd Assistant Director
Jack Angel
Costumer
Ted Coodley
Makeup
Joe Franklin
Script Supervisor
Chick Chichetti
Property Master
Mel Sternlight
Assistant Propman
Tex Hayes
Grip
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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