Three Stooges question...

[Osi Osgood]

Was "A Plumbing We Will Go" ever released on Super 8, sound or otherwise? I have never seen a copy of it on Super 8.

[Osi Osgood]

Was this ever released as a "digest" version? 200ft ... 50ft?

[Joe Caruso]

No, not that one...Shorty

[Douglas Meltzer]

Shorty's correct (of course!). Columbia unfortunately didn't release any version of Plumbing. Not as a 200 or 50 footer...



...or as one of the 400 footers that they put out starting in 1973.

[Osi Osgood]

It's a shame that no other companies did either! It's one of they're best shorts, to be sure. Nyuk Nyuk!

[Philip Hamilton]

So I asked the question a long while back and I got this response - If you want the REMAKE of A Plumbing We Will Go then VAGABOND LOAFERS was release by Columbia on 400’ Super 8 Sound:

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

[Joe Caruso]

Correct; PLUMBING was a no..STOOGES GO WEST was S8Sound from Walton..Shorty

[Steve Klare]

Was Back to the Woods ever released on Super-8 sound?

We saw this at CineSea at least once (likely 16mm) and there is this line in there:

Moe: You may fire at will!
Curly: Which one's Will?

This has become kind of a household catch-phrase here.

I would do 16mm if it came to it, but they are looking kind of pricey right now.

[Joe Caruso]

Never manufactured in S8SOUND... personally, would have liked ten others in that gauge, but that was Columbia's call..how or why they chose specific titles was a corporate move... Shorty

[Steve Klare]

16mm it is!
(Eventually!)

[Philip Hamilton]

Never manufactured in S8SOUND... personally, would have liked ten others in that gauge, but that was Columbia's call..how or why they chose specific titles was a corporate move... Shorty

Yeah odd selections to me. I wish THE HOT SCOTS and MALICE IN THE PALACE, and BRIDELESS GROOM had been released by Columbia on Super 8 Sound. Never seen the last two on Super 8 Sound listed on eBay even though they may have been released by another provider. I can watch that Christine McIntyre take down of Shemp as her dear old Cousin Basil all day long. Hilarious.

[Joseph Banfield]

Yeah odd selections to me. I wish THE HOT SCOTS and MALICE IN THE PALACE, and BRIDELESS GROOM had been released by Columbia on Super 8 Sound. Never seen the last two on Super 8 Sound listed on eBay even though they may have been released by another provider. I can watch that Christine McIntyre take down of Shemp as her dear old Cousin Basil all day long. Hilarious.

I'm not sure about all the Columbia shorts from The Three Stooges but at least one of them has had an entire scene removed. In The Sweet Pie and Pie, Columbia has removed the entire scene where Curly builds a rickety makeshift ladder out of chairs and tables to reach the top of the three tier bunkbed only to crash down on top of Larry and Moe. So, unlike the claim on the Columbia blue box that it is complete and unedited, it most certainly has been edited!

[Osi Osgood]

I'm pretty sure that "Malice in the Palace" was released by either Niles or some other"Cheapie" super 8 company, as I have a cheapie DVD collection of the three stooges, which has all four of the shorts that went public domain, and the print for "Malice in the Palace" is definitely taken from a super 8 source, as the magnetic stripe bleeds into the picture! Wouldn't happen with 16mm.

[Ed Gordon]

So I asked the question a long while back and I got this response - If you want the REMAKE of A Plumbing We Will Go then VAGABOND LOAFERS was release by Columbia on 400’ Super 8 Sound

Unfortunately the remake, Vagabond Loafers has Shemp instead of Curley. A Plumbing We Will Go was superior to the remake.

I'm not sure about all the Columbia shorts from The Three Stooges but at least one of them has had an entire scene removed. In The Sweet Pie and Pie, Columbia has removed the entire scene where Curly builds a rickety makeshift ladder out of chairs and tables to reach the top of the three tier bunkbed only to crash down on top of Larry and Moe. So, unlike the claim on the Columbia blue box that it is complete and unedited, it most certainly has been edited!

I have the digital version of In the Sweet Pie and Pie and it runs 17:34 which would fit nicely on a 400' reel. I don't understand why they would cut the bunk bed scene. I wonder if some collector cut it out to keep before they sold their print? "Excellent print with only one splice in the reel!"

[Dave Bickford]

I'm pretty sure that "Malice in the Palace" was released by either Niles or some other"Cheapie" super 8 company...

A bit off topic, but speaking of Niles...I have Niles print of "Disorder In The Court". The print quality is awful. It looks like someone filmed a projected image from a screen. "Cheapie" indeed!