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AMERICA’S FAVORITE COMEDY TEAM KNOWN FOR THEIR ZANY ANARCHIC SLAPSTICK SHORT FILMS LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THEM BEFORE!

The Three Stooges have been entertaining fans with their riotous brand of eye-gouging, face slapping, and head bopping insanity for nearly 100 years! Now, CINEMUSEUM LLC and KIT PARKER FILMS offer fans of the Amalgamated Morons a chance to revisit the Golden Age of Stoogery with this new 3-Disc collection of archival rarities. Whether you're a lifelong Stoogephile, or just a casual knucklehead, you are sure to find something to love about this comprehensive tribute to America's most beloved madcaps: Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe, and Curly Joe - The Three Stooges!

Over 8 hours of material, including unreleased outtakes, color home movies, rare television appearances and commercials, theatrical trailers, unseen archival interview footage, forgotten audio recordings from live stooge appearances, family photo galleries, and much more new-to-home-video fun!

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Brand new presentation of the award-winning documentary program STOOGES: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM, with new introduction by Curly Howard’s real-life grandson, Bradley Server
• Lost theatrical featurette SURPRISE, SURPRISE (1937) starring Moe, Larry, and Curly
• Long unseen short subject EVERYBODY LIKES MUSIC (1934) starring Shemp Howard
• 11+ hours of film, television, radio, and personal appearance rarities, many never been released on home video!
• Restored and remastered for HD from the best surviving materials.

THE NATIVE RESOLUTION OF THE MAJORITY OF THE CONTENT FEATURED ON THESE DISCS WAS PRODUCED ON 480p STANDARD DEFINITION. THIS CONTENT HAS BEEN UPCONVERTED TO 1080p HIGH DEFINITION FOR THIS BLU-RAY RELEASE TO ENSURE THE BEST POSSIBLE QUALITY.

 

[[email protected]]

It's interesting that this will be available on Blu-ray, but yet we still don't have the Stooges' shorts on Blu-ray.

 

[dana martin]

It's interesting that this will be available on Blu-ray, but yet we still don't have the Stooges' shorts on Blu-ray.

Think that is a missed golden opportunity, when the originals came out in two year sets in the beginning was hoping the HD releases would follow after..... still waiting

 

[Tony Bensley]

It's interesting that this will be available on Blu-ray, but yet we still don't have the Stooges' shorts on Blu-ray.

I totally agree, and most of the STOOGE-O-RAMA content is native 480p! While the upconversion isn't necessarily pointless, depending on the amount of care taken, why not also release the Stooges Columbia shorts that already have existing 2k scans on Blu-ray?

CHEERS!

 

[B-ROLL]

It's interesting that this will be available on Blu-ray, but yet we still don't have the Stooges' shorts on Blu-ray.

Disorder in the Court is on the extra features blu-ray for the 2nd Sony 4K set and one of the 3D ones was released by TT on The Mad Magician

 

[Rob W]

Disorder in the Court is on the extra features blu-ray for the 2nd Sony 4K set and one of the 3D ones was released by TT on The Mad Magician

Mad Magician has both of the 3D Stooges shorts .

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

There were, I think, 24 Stooges shorts included in HD across the first four Indicator “Columbia Noir” UK Blu-ray box sets.

 

[[email protected]]

Yeah, I'm aware that some shorts are scattered as bonuses, but just surprised they haven't released yet any of their own collections.

 

[BobO'Link]

I'd not heard of the documentary "STOOGES: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM" so looked it up to get some reviews - mainly because there are *lots* of Stooges documentaries out there and most are just not very well done, rip each other off, and/or simply regurgitate commonly known facts with the "not very well done" being the most common type.

That documentary is available to stream free on youtube from Sprocket Vault (aka Kit Parker Films - distributor of this release):



It is quite good. While most of it consists of known information it's well produced, looks much better than most Stooge documentaries, and involves several family members and associates of the Stooges. Watching that documentary made me excited about this release - in spite of owning several documentaries about the "trio."

 

[Tony Bensley]

I'd not heard of the documentary "STOOGES: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM" so looked it up to get some reviews - mainly because there are *lots* of Stooges documentaries out there and most are just not very well done, rip each other off, and/or simply regurgitate commonly known facts with the "not very well done" being the most common type.

That documentary is available to stream free on youtube from Sprocket Vault (aka Kit Parker Films - distributor of this release):



It is quite good. While most of it consists of known information it's well produced, looks much better than most Stooge documentaries, and involves several family members and associates of the Stooges. Watching that documentary made me excited about this release - in spite of owning several documentaries about the "trio."

Although I have this documentary on DVD and have viewed it several times, I ended up watching this entire YouTube presentation. Very nice!

CHEERS!

 

[rdf8585]

Yeah, I'm aware that some shorts are scattered as bonuses, but just surprised they haven't released yet any of their own collections.

Especially since the Stooge shorts would probably sell better than the features they've been added as bonuses to.

 

[rdf8585]

Think that is a missed golden opportunity, when the originals came out in two year sets in the beginning was hoping the HD releases would follow after..... still waiting

Someone from Sony told me 6 years ago: "This has come up various times, and its fallen off the schedule. We will probably be looking at it again, soon, as the Masters of most of these shorts look fantastic, and would hold up nicely on BD."

And here are, 6 years later, and still zero signs of the shorts on BR.

 

[rdf8585]

Following is the complete content list for the new CineMuseum LLC and Kit Parker Films home video release which lands on July 11th: STOOGE O-RAMA: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM -- AND EVEN MORE MAYHEM! (2023)

Disc 1
WELCOME – Introduction from Bradley “Curly G” Server, Curly Howard’s youngest grandson!
STOOGES: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM (2023) – Updated version of the award-winning documentary program which originally aired in 1994 as part of A&E’s groundbreaking BIOGRAPHY television series.
BONUS FEATURES
EXTENDED INTERVIEWS:
LYLA FINE BUDNICK – Larry Fine’s sister
NATE BUDNICK –Stooges stage show sound man
BILLY WEST – Voice actor (REN & STIMPY, DOUG, FUTURAMA, DISENCHANTMENT)
LOLA JENSEN – Actress (FLAT FOOT STOOGES & YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA)
UNAIRED COMMERCIAL BUMPS (1992) – Never before seen unused commercial bumps for the first TV airing of STOOGES: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM

PHOTO GALLERIES:
LYLA FINE PERSONAL SCRAPBOOK – Gallery of rare family photographs
STOOGE MEMORABILIA – Gallery of rare Three Stooges collectibles and memorabilia

Disc 2
STOOGES LOST AND FOUND
Fox Movietone News – Sound newsreel outtakes featuring Moe & Shemp Howard (Aug 6, 1929)
Stooge Home Movies – Ultra rare B&W / color snippets of the Stooges at work and play (1920s – 1960s)
Everybody Likes Music (March 9, 1934) Long unavailable Shemp Howard Van Beuren short
Surprise, Surprise (October 31, 1937) Lost theatrical featurette, with Moe, Larry & Curly, promoting their Pillsbury Projector toy giveaway.
Ed Wynn Camel Comedy Caravan – Complete TV Kinescope (March 11, 1950)
Andy Wade’s California Home Movies (July 1956) Extraordinary home movie reel featuring color footage of Moe, Larry, Joe Besser & Emil Sitka clowning at Columbia Pictures, the last known footage Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, and more!
On The Go (April 15, 1960) The complete TV interview with Moe, Larry & Curly Joe DeRita
Strictly For Laffs (July 1, 1962) – Complete TV Pilot featuring Moe Howard.
Star Spangled Salesman (Feb 9, 1968) Government PSA for Savings Bonds
Kook’s Tour Outtakes (Dec 7, 1969) Unseen color outtakes from their final film!
Joe DeRita Interview (1976) Sound home movie footage with historian Randy Skretvedt
The Funniest Guys in The World – Documentary Outtake Reel (1983) Director Mark Gilman’s interview outtakes and workprint featuring Ted Healy’s replacement stooges Paul “Mousie” Garner, Jack Wolf & Dick Hakins, Stooges co-star Emil Sitka, director Jules White, director Edward Bernds, writer Elwood Ullman, actors Paul Winchell, Frank Mitchell, Jock Mahoney, Julie Gibson and more!
Mousie Garner - Mousie performs his stage act live at the Three Stooges Convention in Trevose, PA (1994)

Disc 3
Commercial Stooges:
Instant Simonize (March 15, 1960)
Don Lamond spot – KTTV TV-11 Los Angeles (1961)
Mr. Poplolly – Cartoonerville Trolley promo – WJZ TV-13 Baltimore (circa 1961)
Dickie’s Work Clothes (March 31, 1969) 60 second spot
Dickie’s Work Clothes (March 31, 1969) 30 second spot
Stroke of Luck Book (Nov 1, 1973) 60 second commercial featuring Larry Fine
Three Stooges Tee-Shirt (June 1, 1974) surviving fragment – featuring Larry Fine

Movie Trailers and Coming Attractions
Turn Back the Clock (Aug 25, 1933)
Dancing Lady (Nov 24, 1933)
Hollywood Party (May 24, 1934)
Time Out for Rhythm (June 5, 1941)
Gold Raiders (Sept 14, 1951)
The Three Stooges Laff-A-Rama (1950s)
Have Rocket, Will Travel (Aug 1, 1959)
Three Stooges Fun-O-Rama (Sep 1, 1959)
Stop! Look! And Laugh! (July 27, 1960)
Snow White and The Three Stooges 1 – B&W (June 12, 1961)
Snow White and The Three Stooges 2 – Color (June 12, 1961)
The Three Stooges Meet Hercules 1 (Jan 26, 1962)
The Three Stooges Meet Hercules 2 (Jan 26, 1962)
The Three Stooges in Orbit (July 4, 1962)
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in A Daze (August 21, 1963)
4 for Texas (Dec 25, 1963) – Color, Widescreen
The Outlaws Is Coming (Jan 14, 1965)
The Outlaws Is Coming radio trailer (Jan 14, 1965)

Archival Audio:
Fiddler’s Three – Ultra rare recording of Moe, Larry & Shemp’s song rehearsal, from Moe Howard’s personal 78RPM (1948)
WBAL-AM Baltimore – Brent Gunts interviews Moe, Larry, and Shemp (April 6, 1950)
WERS-FM Boston, Audio 66 – Ron Barry, aka Ron Klugman, interviews Moe Howard (Nov 30, 1964)
HEADSHOP – KBSC-TV 52, Los Angeles, Moe Howard with Elliot Mintz – audio excerpts of lost video interview (Jan 27, 1972)
WOHO-AM Toledo – Ken R. Deutsch with Moe Howard (November 1972)
WVSC Radio – Moe Howard at Salem College in Salem, West Virginia (March 2, 1973)
Larry Fine interview at Illinois State University, Bloomington, Illinois (circa 1973-74)
Larry Fine Q&A with Jeff and Greg Lenburg at Loara High School. Anaheim, CA (March 2, 1974)
Moe Howard at State University of New York, Buffalo (September 24, 1974)
WFAA-AM Dallas – Ed Busch with Moe Howard & Larry Fine (May 1975 replay of Sept 27, 1974 broadcast)
Rich Gallo calls Stooge’s director Ed Bernds (circa 1985)
Rich Gallo calls Joe Besser (1987)
Rich Gallo Visits Actor Emil Sitka (April 1987 – August 1988) Rare audio and video footage
Chris Seguin interviews Moe’s daughter Joan Howard Maurer (May 26, 2009) – Surviving excerpts

BONUS FEATURES:
No Census, No Feeling – Modern short subject featuring comedians Shwartzy and Pagana, and Curly G
Curly G Meets Shemp’s great granddaughter Chandler Isaac
*Much of the material here is new to home video. Any content which may be available in other home video releases is included here in either upgraded / or more complete versions.

 

[Peter Keller]

Following is the complete content list for the new CineMuseum LLC and Kit Parker Films home video release which lands on July 11th: STOOGE O-RAMA: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM -- AND EVEN MORE MAYHEM! (2023)

Disc 1
WELCOME – Introduction from Bradley “Curly G” Server, Curly Howard’s youngest grandson!
STOOGES: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM (2023) – Updated version of the award-winning documentary program which originally aired in 1994 as part of A&E’s groundbreaking BIOGRAPHY television series.
BONUS FEATURES
EXTENDED INTERVIEWS:
LYLA FINE BUDNICK – Larry Fine’s sister
NATE BUDNICK –Stooges stage show sound man
BILLY WEST – Voice actor (REN & STIMPY, DOUG, FUTURAMA, DISENCHANTMENT)
LOLA JENSEN – Actress (FLAT FOOT STOOGES & YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA)
UNAIRED COMMERCIAL BUMPS (1992) – Never before seen unused commercial bumps for the first TV airing of STOOGES: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM

PHOTO GALLERIES:
LYLA FINE PERSONAL SCRAPBOOK – Gallery of rare family photographs
STOOGE MEMORABILIA – Gallery of rare Three Stooges collectibles and memorabilia

Disc 2
STOOGES LOST AND FOUND
Fox Movietone News – Sound newsreel outtakes featuring Moe & Shemp Howard (Aug 6, 1929)
Stooge Home Movies – Ultra rare B&W / color snippets of the Stooges at work and play (1920s – 1960s)
Everybody Likes Music (March 9, 1934) Long unavailable Shemp Howard Van Beuren short
Surprise, Surprise (October 31, 1937) Lost theatrical featurette, with Moe, Larry & Curly, promoting their Pillsbury Projector toy giveaway.
Ed Wynn Camel Comedy Caravan – Complete TV Kinescope (March 11, 1950)
Andy Wade’s California Home Movies (July 1956) Extraordinary home movie reel featuring color footage of Moe, Larry, Joe Besser & Emil Sitka clowning at Columbia Pictures, the last known footage Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, and more!
On The Go (April 15, 1960) The complete TV interview with Moe, Larry & Curly Joe DeRita
Strictly For Laffs (July 1, 1962) – Complete TV Pilot featuring Moe Howard.
Star Spangled Salesman (Feb 9, 1968) Government PSA for Savings Bonds
Kook’s Tour Outtakes (Dec 7, 1969) Unseen color outtakes from their final film!
Joe DeRita Interview (1976) Sound home movie footage with historian Randy Skretvedt
The Funniest Guys in The World – Documentary Outtake Reel (1983) Director Mark Gilman’s interview outtakes and workprint featuring Ted Healy’s replacement stooges Paul “Mousie” Garner, Jack Wolf & Dick Hakins, Stooges co-star Emil Sitka, director Jules White, director Edward Bernds, writer Elwood Ullman, actors Paul Winchell, Frank Mitchell, Jock Mahoney, Julie Gibson and more!
Mousie Garner - Mousie performs his stage act live at the Three Stooges Convention in Trevose, PA (1994)

Disc 3
Commercial Stooges:
Instant Simonize (March 15, 1960)
Don Lamond spot – KTTV TV-11 Los Angeles (1961)
Mr. Poplolly – Cartoonerville Trolley promo – WJZ TV-13 Baltimore (circa 1961)
Dickie’s Work Clothes (March 31, 1969) 60 second spot
Dickie’s Work Clothes (March 31, 1969) 30 second spot
Stroke of Luck Book (Nov 1, 1973) 60 second commercial featuring Larry Fine
Three Stooges Tee-Shirt (June 1, 1974) surviving fragment – featuring Larry Fine

Movie Trailers and Coming Attractions
Turn Back the Clock (Aug 25, 1933)
Dancing Lady (Nov 24, 1933)
Hollywood Party (May 24, 1934)
Time Out for Rhythm (June 5, 1941)
Gold Raiders (Sept 14, 1951)
The Three Stooges Laff-A-Rama (1950s)
Have Rocket, Will Travel (Aug 1, 1959)
Three Stooges Fun-O-Rama (Sep 1, 1959)
Stop! Look! And Laugh! (July 27, 1960)
Snow White and The Three Stooges 1 – B&W (June 12, 1961)
Snow White and The Three Stooges 2 – Color (June 12, 1961)
The Three Stooges Meet Hercules 1 (Jan 26, 1962)
The Three Stooges Meet Hercules 2 (Jan 26, 1962)
The Three Stooges in Orbit (July 4, 1962)
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in A Daze (August 21, 1963)
4 for Texas (Dec 25, 1963) – Color, Widescreen
The Outlaws Is Coming (Jan 14, 1965)
The Outlaws Is Coming radio trailer (Jan 14, 1965)

Archival Audio:
Fiddler’s Three – Ultra rare recording of Moe, Larry & Shemp’s song rehearsal, from Moe Howard’s personal 78RPM (1948)
WBAL-AM Baltimore – Brent Gunts interviews Moe, Larry, and Shemp (April 6, 1950)
WERS-FM Boston, Audio 66 – Ron Barry, aka Ron Klugman, interviews Moe Howard (Nov 30, 1964)
HEADSHOP – KBSC-TV 52, Los Angeles, Moe Howard with Elliot Mintz – audio excerpts of lost video interview (Jan 27, 1972)
WOHO-AM Toledo – Ken R. Deutsch with Moe Howard (November 1972)
WVSC Radio – Moe Howard at Salem College in Salem, West Virginia (March 2, 1973)
Larry Fine interview at Illinois State University, Bloomington, Illinois (circa 1973-74)
Larry Fine Q&A with Jeff and Greg Lenburg at Loara High School. Anaheim, CA (March 2, 1974)
Moe Howard at State University of New York, Buffalo (September 24, 1974)
WFAA-AM Dallas – Ed Busch with Moe Howard & Larry Fine (May 1975 replay of Sept 27, 1974 broadcast)
Rich Gallo calls Stooge’s director Ed Bernds (circa 1985)
Rich Gallo calls Joe Besser (1987)
Rich Gallo Visits Actor Emil Sitka (April 1987 – August 1988) Rare audio and video footage
Chris Seguin interviews Moe’s daughter Joan Howard Maurer (May 26, 2009) – Surviving excerpts

BONUS FEATURES:
No Census, No Feeling – Modern short subject featuring comedians Shwartzy and Pagana, and Curly G
Curly G Meets Shemp’s great granddaughter Chandler Isaac
*Much of the material here is new to home video. Any content which may be available in other home video releases is included here in either upgraded / or more complete versions.

Any of them subtitled, do you know? Thanks.

 

[Robbie^Blackmon]

Maybe another missed opportunity, here?

A non-faded, 16mm print of Kook's Tour purported to be a workprint complete with all tape splices, which had outtakes attached at the end of the reel, was offered for open sale (and on EPay) about 2 years ago for around $9k or so.

Could this be the print that the outtakes came from? Or, is the collection of outtakes something that has circulated between private collectors all along?

If these clips came from that particular print mentioned, why not transfer the whole thing with better picture and sound that what has been commercially available, prior?

Or, could a decent print of Kook's Tour be something for a future release?

Just musing.

 

[rdf8585]

Maybe another missed opportunity, here?

A non-faded, 16mm print of Kook's Tour purported to be a workprint complete with all tape splices, which had outtakes attached at the end of the reel, was offered for open sale (and on EPay) about 2 years ago for around $9k or so.

Could this be the print that the outtakes came from? Or, is the collection of outtakes something that has circulated between private collectors all along?

If these clips came from that particular print mentioned, why not transfer the whole thing with better picture and sound that what has been commercially available, prior?

Or, could a decent print of Kook's Tour be something for a future release?

Just musing.

I think the KOOKS TOUR outtakes on this set were in the Nate Sanders auction of Moe's estate a few years ago. A lot of the archival audio in this set was in the same auction.

Lot Detail - Twenty-Four 16mm Film Reels With Behind-the-Scene Footage From "Uncivil War Birds" & "Back From the Front" -- Moe & Shemp Display Their Fox Film Checks, Plus Three Stooge Films & Curly Goofing Off

Twenty-Four 16mm Film Reels Including Behind-the-Scene Footage From ''Uncivil War Birds'' & ''Back From the Front'' -- Moe & Shemp Display Their Fox Film Checks, Plus Stooge Films & Curly Goofing Off

natedsanders.com

That lot mentions a KOOKS TOUR outtakes reel.

 

[rdf8585]

Any of them subtitled, do you know? Thanks.

One of the producers of the set said no subtitles in a Facebook comment, unfortunately.

 

[Robbie^Blackmon]

"I think the KOOKS TOUR outtakes on this set were in the Nate Sanders auction of Moe's estate a few years ago. A lot of the archival audio in this set was in the same auction."

Love it! Thanks for the info!

I guess that leaves the only other 16mm print option-- the one that guy keeps trying to sell for a measly $35k. Rotsa ruck, right? Lulz!!!