The Three Stooges Scrapbook
The Three Stooges Scrapbook is an unaired 1960 television pilot starring The Three Stooges. In the opening title and Hollywood trade advertisements, the show's title is spelled without "The", including a promotional photograph of the Stooges holding an oversized scrapbook. The episode's plot finds the men evicted from a rooming house and finding refuge in the home of a mad inventor. Later, the trio dashes off to a television studio to host their new series. Part of the show within a show is an animated short called It's Mutiny that imagines them as part of Christopher Columbus' crew.
The Three Stooges Scrapbook was filmed in color and produced by Norman Maurer, who hoped to establish a weekly program for children’s television. When no network wished to pursue the project as a series, Maurer divided the pilot into two short films that were released to theaters in 1963. Maurer also reprinted the live-action scenes in black and white and incorporated them into the 1962 feature film The Three Stooges in Orbit.
The complete pilot was released as a bonus feature on Sony's The Three Stooges 20-Disc Blu-Ray Collection.
Cast
- Moe Howard as Moe
- Larry Fine as Larry
- Joe DeRita as Curly-Joe
- Emil Sitka as Prof. Dolottle
- Marjorie Eaton as Mrs. McGinnis
- Don Lamond as Announcer/Stage Manager
- Edward Innes as Landlord
- Albert Grazier as Butler
- Mel Blanc as the voice of Christopher Columbus, Manuel, and the Chief
Credits
- Director: Sidney Miller
- Writer: Elwood Ullman
- Producer: Norman Maurer
- Starring: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe DeRita
- Featuring: Emil Sitka, Marjorie Eaton, Don Lamond, Edward Innes, Albert Grazier
- Music Composer and Conductor: Paul Dunlap
- Title Song: George Dunning and Stanley Styne
- Vocals: The Eligibles
- Director of Photography: Hal McAlpin
- Film Editor: Chuck Gladden
- Assistant Director: Harry Slott
- Associate Producer: Pat Somerset
- Chief Electrician: Robert Petzoldt
- Sound Recorder: Leon Leon
- Property Master: Chick Chicetti
- Set Decorator: Frank Lombardo
- Script Supervisor: Joe Franklin
- Makeup: Ted Coodley
- Costumer: Jack Angel
- Grip: Tex Hayes
- Laboratory: Consolidated Film Industries
- Sound: Glen Glenn
- Costume Designer: Sascha Brastoff