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Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on May 15, 2006, 05:17 PM:
 
Robert Aragon's posting in the sales section got me to thinking about how many of the Stooges' films are available on 8mm. Please add to the list!

Columbia 400' Super 8mm Sound
Columbia 200' Sound
Columbia 50'& 200' Silent 3-D Americom 200' silent (with soundtrack record) Walton 200' Super 8mm/Reg 8mm SoundNiles 400' Super 8mm SoundFull Length Features


[ May 21, 2006, 09:09 PM: Message edited by: Douglas Meltzer ]
 
Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on May 16, 2006, 11:59 PM:
 
Walton, in England, released both full-length and digest versions of "Gold Raiders" as "Stooges Go West".
 
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on May 17, 2006, 12:00 AM:
 
Hi Doug
I was interested to read your list,I have a Americon 8mm Snow White and the Three Stooges I ran the record a few years ago and it worked well,Doug do you know the history behind the company that produced them?on the back cover it mentions also available on standard eight so I guess it goes back a few years.
Regards Graham

P.S Was thinking of posting a few photos of our home cinema not sure how to do this Thanks
 
Posted by David Kilderry (Member # 549) on May 17, 2006, 12:55 AM:
 
Yes I have the Walton Stooges Go West in both Standard 8 sound and Super 8 sound. They are 200ft with a nice colourised box cover. The films original theatrical title was Gold Raiders. It is from 1951 with Shemp. Remember "you can't hit a man with glasses!"

Regards,

David
 
Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on May 01, 2012, 08:31 PM:
 
I would have seeked out "Gold Raiders" years ago, but having seen the film... I'll pass. It was just god-awful. Especially the part where they keep repeating one particular action sequence over and over and over again with the cowboy on his horse shooting his six gun. I remember reading years later that Moe Howard hated the film and always declined discussing it. Howard said it was made on a very low budget - it shows.
 
Posted by Gary Crawford (Member # 67) on May 02, 2012, 06:47 AM:
 
I have a super 8 print of Three Little Pigskins.....I know Columbia did not put it out, but it's a fairly nice print...but can't remember who released it. Reel Image, possibly..or Red Fox... or Canterbury....
Niles had a Disorder in the Court ...but then so did a lot of folks.

Hope to see you all this weekend in New Jersey...
 
Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on May 02, 2012, 01:02 PM:
 
I adore those Columbia 400ft releases, (having nine of them!) as they were, as a general rule, superior prints! Also, most have the original Columbia leaders on them. Very sharp indeed!
 
Posted by Panayotis A. Carayannis (Member # 1220) on May 02, 2012, 05:29 PM:
 
STOOGES GO WEST is not a full length but a shortened four reel 36 minute version, from the original 56, and is a rather nice little film. It is an equal blend of half a Stooges comedy and half a George O'Brien western and, like the later features, lacks the excessive comic violence of the shorts.After all, Edward Bernds was a more restrained director than Jules White! As for its cheapness,well, it was a Jack Schwartz production, of whose films, quite a few were released in 8 mm. Mountain having made a deal with Renown which had distributed them in England. Why THE GOLD RAIDERS was shortened and retitled is a mystery while all the others were issued complete (all around an hour). Just try to watch BUFFALO BILL IN TOMAHAWK TERRITORY, FORBIDDEN JUNGLE or CATTLE QUEEN to see how bad a shoddy little cheapie can be. At least, this one wasn't directed by B.B. Ray or Robert Tansey !!!
 
Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on July 29, 2016, 12:20 PM:
 
In another thread Shorty asked to see a catalog scan of the Columbia Stooges 200' releases. This is from the 1969 catalog. There weren't any additions till 1973, when Columbia started to put out the 400' versions.

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Shorty, you were also asking about "A Pain in the Pullman". I don't believe that was released on 8mm.

Doug
 
Posted by Joseph Randall (Member # 4906) on July 30, 2016, 01:03 PM:
 
How did they get away with advertising them as "complete" subjects when you were only getting half the film?
 
Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on July 30, 2016, 01:24 PM:
 
Joseph,

From the catalog:

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Doug
 
Posted by Joseph Randall (Member # 4906) on July 30, 2016, 08:13 PM:
 
Thanks Doug.

Well, they still tip-toed around the fact that they weren't really complete. 12 minutes at 18fps, I assume. Castle used the same terminology.

I have about a half-dozen of those Stooges titles, but I run them at 24 fps, which looks right.
 
Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on July 31, 2016, 12:22 PM:
 
Okay, thanks again Doug - I've been wrong in my want-list, I need DIZZY DOCTORS - Thanks, Shorty
 
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on July 31, 2016, 03:59 PM:
 
I feel inspired to get some Stooges now.

When I was a little kid they were pretty much verboten at home because of the violence.

At a very spry 85 years old, Mom's still with us:

-I won't tell her if you don't!
 


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