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Osi Osgood
Film God

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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted January 06, 2016 02:25 PM

I ran "A Bird in the Head" (1946, one of Curly's last), it's an official Columbia print, and, upon waiting for a certain scene I'd always remembered from the film ...

It never came ...

I unspooled the film up to the point that it happened (both Curly and the Gorilla drink something in the lab, and smoke comes out of both of their ears) ... and sure enough, there is a splice in the negative that was used and that whole wonderful bit isn't in it ...

So this appears to be an "edited" full length Stooge film.

I had always assumed that the 400ft Stooge shorts were the full complete shorts, but is this so?

or ...

Is this just a rare case of a short that should be complete from Columbia films, but is just a bad negative that they let pass?

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Gary Crawford
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Manassas, VA. USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 07, 2016 06:38 AM

now I have to get my print out and check it. Perhaps later in the printings, the neg got damaged and they just clipped it and kept on printing. hmmmm Now smoke is flying out of MY ears.

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Joe Caruso
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From: USA
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posted January 07, 2016 08:37 AM

I still say whoever had the print, somehow that segment caught a glitch in and of itself and had to be eliminated

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Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted January 07, 2016 12:39 PM

I actually checked that, Shorty, and the splice was not made by the previous owner of the film, it's on the actual film itself, hence, the negative used.

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Joe Caruso
Film God

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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 07, 2016 03:38 PM

Is a Puzzlement, to be sure - Someone here might know

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