Three Stooges Collection DVDs

Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 - $19.99 ea. @ Amazon - 2008
Vol. 3 - $16.99 - 2008
Vol. 4 - $21.99 - 2008
Vol. 5 - $15.99 - 2009

$95.00 invested in a 56 year lifetime favorite !!!!!!




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Anyone hear about this and/or check this out?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00NVJ1E4S?vs=1

Their MGM shorts finally released together including the newly found Hellp Pop footage! This was released in September.

 

How did this get BY us? Just ordered to replace my Canadian grey area DVD. Also ordered this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Vitaphone-Com..._bxgy_1_p?ie=UTF8&refRID=17SRHKCNT0BYBEFZB08M

 

it a MOD...not interested.

 

But it's got Hello Pop!. No collection is complete.

 

don't do MOD...thanks for the concern.

 

Don't get hung up on that. The quality is still there. Fully restored and all. Your loss.

 

I don't love MOD, but I have gotten several DVDs like that when The Warner Archives offered no alternative. Sometimes first-run copies are officially "pressed", just like "real" DVDs; I bought the four multi-disc volumes of Warner's BOWERY BOYS COLLECTION, and they're all normal, official DVDs.

 

So its a crapshoot at this point. I'll let you know if its a DVD-R. I expect that the Shemp set will be. I have two DVD-R archive issues and my only complaints are the lack of logical chapter marks. I have Carbine Williams with Jimmy Stewart and Penn And Teller Get Killed, and they look fine.

 

MODS are just a stopgap until the death of physical media-I have no problem with them, and it beats VHS or a grey market bootleg of a 4th generation dub. And like was posted above, a lot of Warner Archive stuff initially comes out on manufactured DVDS.

 

I am hopeful because the Howard/Fine/Howard shipped almost immediately, while the Shemp set hasn't. Perhaps they had those on the shelf already as pressed discs. We shall see.

 

yes hit and miss...

 

yes, Thanks... I do not support MOD...

 

and the high prices for 25 cent DVDR...pox on it!

 

If a MOD disc looks and sounds great, and if it never goes dead and lasts... what's the problem, really?

 

I would rather have seen this released as a "real" DVD too, but given that Hello Pop had been written off as a lost film until being recovered last year, this is an essential disc no matter the format. Just for the record, there is one other M-G-M short still among the missing: Jailbirds Of Paradise, which features Moe and Curly without Larry. Missing as in, still considered lost.

These shorts are not quite like the classic Columbia shorts that followed. Ted Healy is the star (interesting how he isn't mentioned on the cover, given that these are his shorts) and the Stooges are still evolving. Plane Nuts is my favorite of the M-G-M Healy/Stooge shorts, as it preserves an example of their stage act of the era on film. Beer And Pretzels seems to be the one which most closely resembles the style of the "real" Three Stooges shorts. Roast-Beef And Movies has Curly teamed with two other comics rather than Moe and Larry: ethnic comedian George Givot ("How do you like that?") and Bobby Callahan, who played the telegram guy in the Stooges' Men In Black and also in Laurel & Hardy's Helpmates. I'd be interested to know how that odd teaming came about, splitting the Stooges up, and why they didn't just have the team of Howard, Fine and Howard do that one (Ted Healy isn't in it either). Of course, at the time these guys were not "The Three Stooges" yet, but it still seems kind of strange.

 

Gotta ask...what's a MOD?

 

Made On Demand. A DVD-R

 

Thanks!

 

I always run a duplicate and save it to my hard drive if I buy a DVD-R.

 

nothing obviously for you, But I have a problem with them. really I do my friend.

 

guess that's the best bet...as they do fail. I have a friend who had a nightmare with Warner Archives...

 

If they apply a stick-on label to the dvd-r, the adhesive will erode through the disc and ruin the playing side of the disc. It will take a few years but it will happen.

 

These are not on the Rare Treasures collection ?