Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Format: Black & White, 3D, NTSC, Digital Video Transfer, Mono
Publication Date: 2007
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 20 unknown-units
Sales Rank: 143744
Theatrical Release Date: 1953
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Rating:  - A gold nugget of Abbot and Costello comedy
This is a rare, good, funny Abbott and Costello skit from the Colgate Comedy Hour television show. Definitely worth a couple bucks to watch. (But, not worth the price I paid, which was triple that.) The skit is only about 14 minutes long.
Both the normal 2D and synthesized 3D versions are included. The DVD arrived in a paper DVD sleeve.
The skit revolves around Bud and Lou going to the horror movie prop room to get props for an upcoming performance. There is no credit roll listing the actors. The skit includes appearances by the Property Man, Frankenstein's Monster, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the Invisible Man (though, his is not an 'appearance', technically).
I mostly bought this for the 3D. The 3D was... ahm... interesting. It is a regular 2D TV broadcast comedy skit (which is also included). The DVD author has converted it into anaglyph 3D (red/cyan 3D glasses style - red on the right, I think). This does show some depth. The good news is that it looks like an earnest attempt at 3D, not just a simple frame offset trick.
The bad news is that the anaglyph 3D ghosts too badly to work. Very little was staged at the screen plane. Most things were either well behind or well in front of the screen, which is why the 3D fails (this amplifies the ghosting). Not much continuous depth within any objects. (For example the prop room tabletop appears to be all at the same depth, instead of continuously varying through depth.) Often, the right ... Read More
Rating:  - Great mini-3-D movie.
Tried to write a review of this once before.
Hit the "enter" button to advance the paragraph.
THAT submited my incomplete review. Couldn't ed-
it it. Here goes again...
Anyway...
This is the major portion of a 50-minute Abbott&
Costello Colgate Comedy Hour. Many versions of the
original kinescope have major portions-- or ALL--
of this skit cut out. While I've NEVER seen a pris-
tine copy of A-N-Y 1950's L-I-V-E show, this is as
good as you can expect. I'm satisfied with the clip.
The 3-D was as good as I'd expected. Better! Bravo
to whomever remastered the footage and "animated"
the BLACK and WHITE film with some depth.
I sure wish someone would do that with those two
3-D THREE STOOGES Shorts Columbia filmed in 1953:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"SPOOKS"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"PARDON MY BACKFIRE".
The person who delivers THOSE two can name their
price! Here's my e-mail address:
Groesch-McCluskey@t-online.de
"Big Mac" Fulda, Germany
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