The credit goes to Grover Crisp & Mike Schlesinger for the Bonus Shorts
Restored, preserved and now shared with the world. This collection of the 190 Columbia Shorts starring the boys now includes 28 shorts made by Shemp Howard, Joe Besser and Joe Derita.
The credit for the restoration goes to Grover Crisp and his outstanding crew of film preservationists. All the shorts were preserved onto film stock and mastered onto digital formats. This allows for the films to be projected either from 35mm film sources and digitally from DCP or DVD.
The reason these made it to home video is due to the tenacity of one individual; an executive at Sony who knows the importance of the "solo" shorts to the fans of the Stooges. He has been in the industry for over thirty years, making sure that many films were saved from extinction and, for the fans, pushing hard for their exhibition in revival houses and on home screens. With this box set of 218 two reel comedies (the largest complete collection of short subjects ever released by a major distributor),...
Why have only the Stooges survived from Columbia's heyday??
Great to see Columbia release the entire "canon" of the 190 Stooge shorts in one set; it is an iconic body of work, and automatically gets the five-star rating.
Also great to see Columbia's 3-disk supplement, which will give the general public (who only know the Stooges as a team) an idea of the OTHER comedy shorts that were being churned out by Columbia during their heyday. You will see the same directors, writers AND supporting cast members that we have come to know and love through their work with the Stooges...and it's cool to see them in all of these unfamiliar efforts (three of the Shemp appearances are in films starring the wacky but sad-sack Andy Clyde, who was Columbia studio's 2nd-biggest comedy film-star after the Stooges).
HOWEVER---BE ADVISED: there's a reason that only the Stooges shorts have survived in the public consciouness for the past 80 years; for even when an excellent director like Ed Bernds, who did such great work with the Stooges, worked...
Great set of comedy shorts with NEW BONUS MATERIAL of the stars solo shorts!
GREAT SET! The COMPLETE Collection of all of the Three Stooges Columbia shorts as well as three discs of Bonus material featuring the solo efforts of the Stooges!
Who could ask for more? And speaking of more.. IF YOU ALREADY BOUGHT THE INDIVIDUAL SETS, YOU CAN BUY THE THREE BONUS DISCS HERE: The Three Stooges - Rare Treasures from the Columbia Vault
If you have not bought the previous individual sets, then get this 5-star set! The restoration is wonderful! They look like they were filmed yesterday! Kudos to Sony Home Video for this wonderful presentation!
New Bonus Contents Included are (and these WILL also be available separately outside of this set):
Disc #1
Rockin' In The Rockies (1945) (feature film with Curly)
Have Rocket--Will Travel (1958) (feature film with Curly-Joe)
Columbia Color Rhapsody cartoons:
The Bon Bon Parade (1935)
The Merry...
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