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Early Stooges Stuff, can it be found?
Pilsner Panther:
It's a real long shot, Bruck, but supposedly "lost" films can turn up, even many decades later:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007L4MK/qid=1123802771/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-6163205-7007356?v=glance&s=dvd
I have this DVD, and I've got to say that the restoration job is superb, considering what they had to work with. This is absolutely the funniest of the Arbuckle-Keaton collaborations, by the way (with "The Bellboy" and "The Garage" a close second and third). Both stars show off their acrobatic and juggling skills to the max— I highly recommend it to anyone who loves slapstick.
So, a print of "Hello, Pop" could be found somewhere, yet (after all, people are going around searching for lost films), but I'd say the odds against it are pretty high. As for two-strip Technicolor, a few years ago I saw a print of "The King of Jazz" with Paul Whiteman (and a very young Bing Crosby), in a theater. It was filmed in 2-strip Technicolor in 1930, and the color didn't look bad at all, except for the predominance of blues and reds that you always see with that process. How or why the film was preserved and the color didn't deteriorate, I couldn't tell you, though.
Curley91:
Are You Joshing us? Do you REALLY mean a print of "Hello, Pop" exists!?!? I have been wanting to see that ever since I became a stooges fan! (which was very long ago!) I looked at the amazon.com reviews, but it didn't say anything about that film. Am I missing something? ???
Pilsner Panther:
--- Quote from: Curley91 on August 11, 2005, 11:43:09 PM ---Are You Joshing us? Do you REALLY mean a print of "Hello, Pop" exists!?!? I have been wanting to see that ever since I became a stooges fan! (which was very long ago!) I looked at the amazon.com reviews, but it didn't say anything about that film. Am I missing something? ???
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Just the whole point of what I said, that's all. To quote Moe, "I'll explain it so that even you can understand it:"
;)
1. Not all "lost" films are really lost forever. Some have been found and restored, even after seventy or eighty or ninety years. However, that doesn't happen very often; the chances of finding one are about the same as discovering a "lost" Van Gogh painting in your attic or basement or garage.
2. I'm not saying that a copy of "Hello, Pop" exists (in whatever form); I'm just saying that the possibility can't be ruled out that one does. Check out what garystooge has to say— right on this site— about the rediscovery and restoration of "Soup To Nuts," and you'll see how unlikely it is that some of these early sound films survived, and how much work went into making them available again.
Bruckman:
I've seen that print of "King of Jazz" too, and outside of the typical murkiness toward the green end of the spectrum, it was superb. So is the Eddie Cantor musical "Whoopee", another 1930 2-strip Technicolor feature: it looks as vivid as the day it was released. These, being "prestige" films, probably stood a better chance of preservation; also a greater number of prints were likely struck off the neg, increasing the chance for survival. MGM, despite its self-proclaimed status as the Tiffany of studios, did a lousy job looking after its films. That's why we have no existing complete prints of "The Rogue Song" and what snippets do exist turned up in the hands of private collectors. If any of "Hello Pop" does exist, it's more than likely to be brief fragments, not a complete reel.
Again, people, we're not saying "Hello Pop" exists, we're just saying there's a very very slim chance some of it may be out there, bits and pieces so brief a non-Stooge enthusiast might not realize what they are or how rare they may be.
girlovestooges:
Hi there everyone. Soup to Nuts DVD is on sale on ebay, there are quite a few of them listed. Go have a look.
Girlovestooges
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