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Long-lost ‘Three Stooges’ short surfaces
NY Post ^ | September 28, 2013 | 6:47pm | By Lou Lumenick

Posted on 09/30/2013 9:30:11 PM PDT by Wiggins

All surviving negative and positive materials for “Hello Pop” — a Three Stooges short in early two-color Technicolor that MGM released in September, 1933 — were believed destroyed in a 1967 vault fire at the Culver City studio (that also claimed Todd Browning’s “London After Midnight” and most outtakes from “The Wizard of Oz.”) Fifty-five years later, the Vitaphone Project — a New Jersey-based group whose mission has expanded from reuniting long-missing soundtrack discs for early musical shorts with mute prints in archives to worldwide searches for missing features and shorts from the post-Vitaphone era — was contacted by an Australian film collector asking if “Hello Pop!” was a lost film. Indeed, it’s the only short or feature with the prolific Stooges not known to exist in any form.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Humor; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: threestooges
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Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Woo, woo, woo.
1 posted on 09/30/2013 9:30:11 PM PDT by Wiggins
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To: Wiggins

“NIAGARA FALLS!........”


2 posted on 09/30/2013 9:30:57 PM PDT by dfwgator
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“You remind me of a girlfriend in Detroit... but you look more like her stepfather!”


3 posted on 09/30/2013 9:33:37 PM PDT by Wiggins
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Awesome!

Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!


4 posted on 09/30/2013 9:34:00 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: dfwgator

‘....slooooooowly I turned, step by step....”


5 posted on 09/30/2013 9:34:09 PM PDT by bitt (If Obama is really worried about “the children”, he should be bombing planned parenthood.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Wise guy!


6 posted on 09/30/2013 9:34:27 PM PDT by Wiggins
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To: Wiggins

Soitenly!


7 posted on 09/30/2013 9:35:14 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Wiggins

SO, will they put this lost film on Youtube??


8 posted on 09/30/2013 9:35:35 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: bitt

“...inch by inch...”


9 posted on 09/30/2013 9:35:44 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Wiggins

Why I oughtta... !


10 posted on 09/30/2013 9:36:01 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Wiggins

Take the stand! Drop the vernacular! Make up your mind! Nyuk.


11 posted on 09/30/2013 9:36:27 PM PDT by Wiggins
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To: GeronL

Moe, Larry the cheese!


12 posted on 09/30/2013 9:37:31 PM PDT by Wiggins
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To: Wiggins

Moe! Larry! Cheese! Moe! Larry! Cheese!


13 posted on 09/30/2013 9:37:55 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Wiggins

“Oh see the deer, does the deer have a little doe?”

“Yeah, two bucks!”


14 posted on 09/30/2013 9:39:15 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Wiggins

Hopefully it is sans Ted Healy, but I suspect otherwise, if it’s from the MGM. Can’t stand Healy.


15 posted on 09/30/2013 9:39:48 PM PDT by greene66
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To: GeronL

“Remind me to kill you later.”

“I’ll make a note of it.”


16 posted on 09/30/2013 9:40:02 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

“You say you have a body on Ticonderoga street? How do you spell that?”
“Can you drag it over to First Ave?”


17 posted on 09/30/2013 9:43:40 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Wiggins
heh

I like it when Curly is attacked by the clam in the clam chowder


18 posted on 09/30/2013 9:43:44 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: dfwgator

Spread out!


19 posted on 09/30/2013 9:46:24 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Kirkwood

lol


20 posted on 09/30/2013 9:46:37 PM PDT by GeronL
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