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Early Stooges Stuff, can it be found?
pianolady:
I have a videotape of early Stooges, some of it in color, with Healy, but no Laurel and Hardy. The Internet Movie Database might help, at least, identify the movie.
BeAStooge:
--- Quote from: pianolady on July 05, 2005, 07:29:44 AM ---The Internet Movie Database might help, at least, identify the movie.
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This website's "Filmography" (see banner link at top of each page) can help you identify virtually any film work by the Stooges, including solo credits. It's more inclusive than imdb.
BeAStooge:
--- Quote from: Curley91 on June 12, 2005, 08:59:48 PM ---I have already seen "Meet The Baron" on a videotape there. It seems to come up quite often. I also saw "The Captian Hates The Sea", but this only came up once. Has "The MGM 3 stooges festival" been released on video or dvd? 4 of their 5 shorts have been released on "The Early Years", but "Hello, Pop" has not been. Did MGM put it on their stooges' festival before its' print was discarded?
I know for a fact that "Dancing Lady" and "The Hollywood Party" have been released on video. I am not sure about the others. I recently taped "Turn back the clock" on TCM.
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This website's "Videography" page lists the known, official, video releases. The "Videography" link is in the "Stooge Info" header on the above banner.
MEET THE BARON (1933) videos on eBay are bootlegs, copied from 1990s presentations on TNT and TCM. It has not been released it on home video.
Many of the Stooges' scenes from MEET THE BARON are included on the 1990 home video retrospective THE LOST STOOGES. Long out-of-print from Turner Home Entertainment, VHS copies are still found from Amazon.com and other online sellers; an Amazon.com purchase link is in TLS' "Videography" entry.
THE CAPTAIN HATES THE SEA (1934) videos on eBay are bootlegs, copied from private 16mm prints. Columbia has never released it on home video.
No print of HELLO POP (1933) has been found. All evidence suggests that the negative was destroyed in a series of nitrate storage vault fires that MGM suffered in the 1960s and 1970s; no surviving 35 or 16mm prints have turned up in the past several decades. So unfortunately, it was not in the theatrical compilation that MGM briefly distributed in 1982. The compilation was simply the four surviving Healy shorts run back-to-back, packaged/distributed under the name MGM THREE STOOGES FESTIVAL.
The 4 Healy shorts and ROAST-BEEF are safely housed in Warner Brothers' vaults. Official home video releases (*) are clips on the aforementioned THE LOST STOOGES, and two early 1990s Laser Disc collections from Turner Entertainment (released thru MGM/UA Home Video), "Cavalcade of MGM Shorts." I'm optimistic that one or more will eventually turn up as bonus features on future Warner Brothers DVD collections.
* Several public domain collections have included the surviving Healy shorts; these are bootlegs. Warner Brothers has current copyrights on all of them, and has litigated pd distributors over the past couple years.
Dunrobin:
--- Quote from: BeAStooge on July 05, 2005, 08:55:19 AM --- * Several public domain collections have included the surviving Healy shorts; these are bootlegs. Warner Brothers has current copyrights on all of them, and has litigated pd distributors over the past couple years.
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Boy, if that doesn't demonstrate the insanity of the modern "copyright" system. Those shorts were made over 70 years ago; they should all be in the public domain by now. Hollywood's corrupt association with Rome-on-the-Potomac has essentially detroyed the very concept of public domain. Thanks again, Congress. >:(
Curley91:
A couple weeks ago, I found "The Stooges Lost Episodes" at the library. It said that "The Hollywood Party" was edited. Exactly what in the world was edited out? Is it in its' entirety on the video it was released on?
And what was edited out of "Movie Maniacs"? I don't find anything objectionable in it.
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