Also just for fun, does anyone have any of the Stooges on BETA or Laser Disc?
I have something in the same league as BETA or Laserdisc -- Stooges on CED videodiscs. CED was the poor man's laserdisc. CED consisted of 12-inch vinyl discs housed in quarter-inch thick styrene covers. Each disc contained a maximum of 120 minutes of programming, 60 minutes on each side. In the case of the Stooges shorts, that equates to six unedited shorts per disc. As I recall, the cost of each Stooges disc was about $20.
The Stooges CEDs in my possession include: Volume 1, containing Dizzy Pilots, A Bird in the Head, Three Sappy People, Uncivil Warriors, Three Missing Links, and Micro-phonies; and Volume 2, containing An Ache in Every Stake, Calling All Curs, Pop Goes the Easel, Woman Haters, Three Little Beers, and Tassels in the Air. Volume 1 was released in 1982, volume 2 in 1983. If memory serves me correctly, CED was the only commercial source of Stooges home videos in the 1982-1983 time frame. All I know is that back then I was very excited to purchase and view these two videodiscs.
By the way, CED stands for "Capacitance Electronic Disc." CED was the budget video system played by physical contact with a stylus, just like that of a record player. RCA released the CED system in the early 1980s, just prior to the commercial success of VHS recorders. Once VHS appeared, CED disappeared. I'm pretty darn sure that some garbage repository in this country contains tens of thousands of unused CED players. RCA lost their shirts when the CED technology went down the drain. This loss was the impetus for RCA being sold to GE a couple of years later.
