Warner Bros. DVD updates

[BeAStooge]

Tuesday night, Feb. 21, George Feltenstein and Ronnee Sass of Warner
Home Video participated in an online chat about WB's upcoming DVD
plans. A few Stooges-related notes...

DANCING LADY (1933) will be included in "The Clark Gable Signature
Collection," due in June 2006. This is a new transfer, taken from the
original nitrate negative.

A Jean Harlow collection is in the works for later this year. (It will
probably contain one or both of the films she made costarring Ted
Healy, BOMBSHELL (1933) and RECKLESS (1935).)

MAD LOVE (1935) costarring Ted Healy will probably be out this year,
maybe next, part of an MGM gothic/horror theme set.

No specific details were provided on short subjects, other than WB does
not plan any shorts-only collections from its MGM or Warner/Vitaphone
libraries at the present time. The studio will continue its practice of
short bonus features (so the possibility remains for a Healy/Stooge MGM
short or a Shemp Vitaphone short some time in the future).

Brent

[h***@netburner.net]

I wonder if DANCING LADY will have the Hitler/puzzle gag restored.

Tommie Hicks

[Rob Farr]

What was the Hitler/puzzle gag? Dancing Lady (1933) must have contained one
of the very first Hollywood references to Hitler (other than newsreels of
course).

Rob Farr
www.slapsticon.org
July 20-23

Post by h***@netburner.net
I wonder if DANCING LADY will have the Hitler/puzzle gag restored.
Tommie Hicks

[BeAStooge]

Post by Rob Farr
What was the Hitler/puzzle gag?

In several scenes, Larry is seen working on a jigsaw puzzle, on a table
next to his piano. The missing segment has Larry finishing the
puzzle...

Larry: Oy! Oy! It's Hitler!
Healy: Whad'ya expect? Santie Claus?

After the Eastman archive fire, MGM/UA thought they lost the nitrate
negative. Actually it was simply misfiled, and when George
Feltenstein's staff re-inventoried about two years ago they found it,
along with about 70 other nitrates thought lost for 20+ years. (Nope,
no HELLO POP or similar holy grails.)

When Turner bought the MGM library in 1986, the only master print of
DANCING LADY in the studio's library was a slightly edited version with
the jigsaw gag clipped. That's the version used on VHS, Laser Disc and
TV for the past two decades.

Their are 16mm prints with the clipped scene that date back to the
1970s and earlier, but Turner and Time-Warner never went back to them
to restore their master library copy. Since the new DVD is coming from
a restoration of the original negative, presumbably the clipped segment
will return.

[Shemp]

*other than WB does not plan any shorts-only *collections from its MGM
or Warner/Vitaphone
*libraries at the present time.

Why them dirty rats! There's no excuse for them not to release a
multiple disc set of all the Shemp shorts as the "Shemp Howard Comedy
Classics Collection".

[Rob Farr]

Or at least occasionally show the Vitaphone Shemps on TCM. They have airable
masters because they used to show them on TNT. Dem bums!

Rob Farr
www.slapsticon.org
July 20-23

Post by Shemp
*other than WB does not plan any shorts-only *collections from its MGM
or Warner/Vitaphone
*libraries at the present time.
Why them dirty rats! There's no excuse for them not to release a
multiple disc set of all the Shemp shorts as the "Shemp Howard Comedy
Classics Collection".