THE THREE STOOGES - Columbia 400' Super 8mm sound digests

[Philip Hamilton]

Can someone please point me to a complete list of Super 8 Sound 400' 3 Stooges digests released by Columbia? I swear I saw the somewhere on the forum but I cannot find it. Thanks!

[Gary Sayers]

Here's a couple of pages from a mid-1970s Columbia Super 8 catalogue.

[Philip Hamilton]

Thanks for posting that. On the right side - those listed as Jumo B/W Sound seem to be the 400' digests. I'm not sure it is complete but it is a great start.

[Gary Sayers]

Hi Philip. Yes, the 'Jumbo' or 'Jumbo Giants' were 400ft reels and the 'Long' versions (the ones on the left) were 200ft reels.

It's possible that some of the 200ft versions are extracts from the same film and could be spliced together to make a complete 400ft film but I couldn't say for sure. It's just that other film distributors used to do this, with Laurel and Hardy for instance, but I have no idea about 3 Stooges films.

[Joe Caruso]

If one looks on the back of the box cover of any 400' edition, there is a list of all the titles...of course, there were others released after 1975....and today marks the passing of Moe, that same year...Shorty

[Philip Hamilton]

Here is a pic of the back of the Stooges UNCIVIL WARRIORS. I also have POP GOES THE EASEL. Neither which are on the list below ---

[Dave Ruth]

Columbia:
Woman Haters (Unique Box Art)
Men In Black
Pop Goes The Easel
Uncivil Warriors
Pardon My Scotch
Hoi Polloi
Three Little Beers
Tassels In The Air
Three Missing Links (Unique Box art)
We Want Our Mummy (200' cut down)
Calling All Curs (Unique box art)
Three Sappy People
Dutiful But Dumb
An Ache In Every Stake
In The Sweet Pie And Pie
Dizzy Pilots (Unique box art)
Three Pests In A Mess
Micro-Phonies
A Bird In The Head (Unique box art)
Pardon My Clutch
Vagabond Loafers
Love At First Bite
Studio Stoops (200' cut down)
Hula-La-La
Three Dark Horses
Creeps
Hot Stuff

Aside from Columbia, I know Red Fox or Thunderbird released the four PD shorts:
Disorder In The Court (I have a TB of this)
Brideless Groom
Sing A Song Of Six Pants
Malice In The Palace (I have a Red Fox of this)

Also Derann put out a 3-D print of Pardon My Backfire, and Walton released "The Three Stooges Go West" which was a Regular 8 sound cutdown of the film "Gold Raiders". Runs about 35 minutes. And Niles released Kook's Tour both as a 400'er and as the complete 3x400 film.

And lastly, I have seen 'homebrews' or small print batches of:
Three Little Pigskins (by Dave's Films?)
Boobs In Arms
I'll Never Heil Again

I *think* that's everything. Unless you ask Shorty, because he speaks of a mythical Dizzy Doctors put out by DCR films, but I have never seen a print of it.

[Philip Hamilton]

Thanks!! Of the Columbia list above are all of those 400' Super 8 sound unless as otherwise noted?

[Dave Ruth]

Yes. These are all the sound shorts.

[Philip Hamilton]

Well the main one I want now is AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE. Got outbid the other day on eBay on a copy of this.

[Dave Ruth]

That auction got way out of hand. Just wait and you’ll find it for about $25-$30. I got mine for $20 a few years back.

[Jeffrey Simon]

I’m looking for the following Stooges films:

Love at First Bite
Three Missing Links
Malice in the Palace (Red Fox)
Sing a Song of Six Pants (Red Fox)
Brideless Groom (Red Fox)

Any luck in finding these would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Jeff

[Philip Hamilton]

That auction got way out of hand. Just wait and you’ll find it for about $25-$30. I got mine for $20 a few years back.

Yeah tell me about it. It wasn't complete and was missing titles. Bids started at 29.99. I didn't think it would go up much due to condition. Sometimes that happens when you get the right mixture of bidders wanting something at the SAME time.