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6/20/08 at 6:15am
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

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Originally Posted by Tony Zannikos
Dana, so far they are actually doing 3 years per set .

i know, its just a matter of math, that wonderfull thing , next set should be 43 - 45


but if you crunch numbers all day you get
45
43

2


i know stupid , but i was in a good mood
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6/20/08 at 6:50pm
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

I think everybody should E-mail Sony and praise them for the great work they've been doing with these Stooge sets. I gave them such heat about the roughshod collections in the past, I felt they should be complimented and encouraged about these collections. They're beautifully remastered and resonably priced. And who knows? Maybe they'll start throwing in bonus stuff when we get to the later Shemp shorts.
Wow! Can you imagine a collection entitled "The Besser Years"?

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6/21/08 at 4:06am
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

Ive seen most of the shemp shorts in my life, but im mostly looking forward to the besser shorts , because ive only seen 2 or 3 of them.Cant wait till volume 3!!!
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

Thank you Sony!! (One for each Stooge)

I also gave them a lot of heat for those terrible old sets, but this new series is great. Great restoration, price, packaging and speed. Way to go Sony.

Someone asked which set to buy....that's hard to put a finger on. Volume 2 and 3 will contain some of the most popular Curly films, but as you will discover, the Shemp films (to come later) are just as funny, and in many cases even funnier. The Joe series have their moments & certainly deserve being released even if they are not as good as the Curly and Shemp years.
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

Count me in as another fan of these sets. While I'd love some extras, Sony has put 100% of their effort into the terrific restorations and remasters. Just having these shorts would be good enough, but I'm surprised by how good these look and sound.

Tell The Weinstein Company to release Richard Williams' animated masterpiece The Thief and the Cobbler on DVD in Panavision widescreen and uncut! See and hear what you're missing from their Bitsy Award winner of Worst Standard Edition DVD of 2006 on YouTube!
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

Re: Vol 2, I'm watching 1 or 2 shorts each night and thoroughly enjoying it. I think it was Joe K who said that spacing these out is his preferred method and I agree. Watching a bunch back to back gets a bit repetitious but in small doses they are quite funny.

Agree on the high quality of the presentation; I wish all vintage material could look this detailed and sharp. I hope consumers support these releases so that all the shorts will get released and Sony will market more of their classic catalog.

They haven't yet tapped into their B films (Jungle Jim, Boston Blackie, etc.) although some are rumored to be coming. The absence of these films from the DVD market is a glaring ommission IMO.
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

We finished vol. 2 tonight, watching the last three episodes from 1939. I hadn't seen Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise in quite some time. A few of the splices I saw tonight left me wondering if they were there because 1) the film was quite bad at those points and a splice was necessary, or because 2) the quality was so very good that I could actually see them now whereas I could not before. Bring on vol. 3!
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

This will be a major veer off topic, but I think Columbia lost the rights to the Jungle Jim movies.
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

We finished vol. 2 tonight, watching the last three episodes from 1939. I hadn't seen Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise in quite some time. A few of the splices I saw tonight left me wondering if they were there because 1) the film was quite bad at those points and a splice was necessary, or because 2) the quality was so very good that I could actually see them now whereas I could not before. Bring on vol. 3!


I haven't watched this short yet, but if I recall this short was re-made with Shemp using some stock footage from the original Curly version. I wonder if this might be the reason for the splices that you saw.
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

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Originally Posted by Eric Peterson
I haven't watched this short yet, but if I recall this short was re-made with Shemp using some stock footage from the original Curly version. I wonder if this might be the reason for the splices that you saw.
Eric,

Thanks for that information. That very well could be the case. I didn't realize that (about the Shemp version). Hopefully in a few years, we'll be able to own all of the Shemps and check it out.
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

I misspoke slightly! That short was remade as "Oil's Well That Ends Well" with Joe Besser in 1958. I'm almost 100% certain that multiple clips from the first were used in the remake though.
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

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I misspoke slightly! That short was remade as "Oil's Well That Ends Well" with Joe Besser in 1958. I'm almost 100% certain that multiple clips from the first were used in the remake though.
Okay, thanks. I still plan on picking up the Besser shorts if and when they become available in this new Sony collection.
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6/23/08 at 10:43am
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

I dont know if anyone realizes this, but if they continue to release these shorts in the 3 month timeframe that they started doing,we will have all 190 shorts on dvd by 2010 - mid 2010 at the latest !!!!!! That is pretty cool.
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

Wow they're burning V.3 out only a couple months after 2. I just finished watching V2. We oughta have the whole set relatively soon!
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

Excellent news!! I'm glad Sony's been trying to do right lately.
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7/1/08 at 7:53pm
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

From ThreeStooges.net..

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Mike Schlesinger of Sony, who manages their classic film library and produces the classic library DVD packages, was recently interviewed online...

Mike Schlesinger interview

From the interview...

"The Three Stooges seems to be moving at full speed. I take it that readers should not expect a slowing down anytime soon?

Nope. The idea was to have everything out by the end of ’09, which is the 75th anniversary of the team’s signing with Columbia. They suddenly realized that at the original pace they wouldn’t finish in time, so now they’ve shifted into high gear.

Besides voting with ones wallet, how can our readers to Sony of their happiness with these releases and their desire for them to continue?

They can send any notes to me at michael_schlesinger@spe.sony.com and I guarantee they’ll be forwarded to the Powers That Be. Even a handful of letters can indeed make an impact."
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

Every three months a new volume for around 17 bucks is all anyone could ask for. Thanks, Sony!
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Re: SPHE Press Release: The Three Stooges Collection: 1940-1942 Volume Three

anyone heard if they are aiming for 8 or 9 sets?

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