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Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on March 21, 2008, 02:57 PM:

Has anyone noticed that just about all the SILENT Curly and Sound Curly shorts from Columbia all have graphics from Shemp shorts and that the graphic doens't necessarily match the film in the box? Wonder why they did that? Would have been nice if they had used the neat raphics on the Silent editions for the individual Sound versions (ie: The graphic from "Spooks" would have been perfect for "Creeps" since that's the short it actually represents).

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on March 21, 2008, 04:35 PM:

Saved them money not creating a whole frontpiece of new box covers. Notice also on the pie-throwing box, the middle stooge could easily be misinterpreted as Curly, Shemp, even Besser to an extent. The artists that be covered his face enough to keep in in the generic mode. I agree, the 200' boxes would have done justice, only SPOOKS was indeed closest to CREEPS. Thing is, none of the others in the 15 series-run made it to a 400' Super 8 Sound edition - Closest was STUDIO STOOPS and WE WANT OUR MUMMY, both made it to the 200' S8Sound versions, but no 400' - I'm proud to own (finally) the complete 200' run with OBs - Those 400' are getting pricey and rare - Shorty

Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on March 21, 2008, 08:28 PM:

I don't see why they wouldn't use a still from "Pardon My Scotch", but instead use a still from "Feulin' Around". Just who's face is on the 400' (pie in the face) boxes that were used for the middle 400'ers. The real early boxes were the generic blue & white, next were the colorized Shemp boxes, after that were the (pie) boxes and finally some white cartoonish boxes with Curly's face (even if the short in the box was a Shemp. "A Bird In The Head", "Three Missing Links", "Woman Haters" and finally "Dizzy Pilots" got even nicer proprietary treatments. So who is the middle stooge with the pie all over his face - it could be any of them?

[ January 30, 2009, 08:41 AM: Message edited by: Brad Kimball ]

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