THREE STOOGES Shorts & Claymation Workshops Set for Spring Recess

The Museum of the Moving Image will host family matinees of THREE STOOGES shorts March 25 through April 15, and daily Claymation workshops from April 6 through 15.

During spring recess for New York City public schools the Museum will present daily screenings of Three Stooges matinees starring Larry, Curly, and Moe and daily Claymation workshops, in which children build their own three-dimensional figure and create a stop-motion animation ($10 materials fee).

More aggressive, inept, and juvenile than the Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges were enormous stars of vaudeville, film, and television. They inspired Bobby and Peter Farrelly’s 1994 comedy Dumb and Dumber, and now the Farrelly Brothers are paying direct homage with their new film, The Three Stooges, which opens in theaters on April 13. The Museum has selected some of the funniest short films starring the trio in their prime, during the “Curly Years” of 1934 through 1946. Each program includes three shorts and runs approximately 60 minutes.

Three Stooges films and Claymation workshops are suitable for children ages 10 and older.

Also on view at the Museum during Spring Recess are the hands-on core exhibition Behind the Screen and the new temporary exhibition JODI: Street Digital. Featuring recent works by the Internet-art pioneers JODI—best known for their websites and softwarer—Street Digital explores how media technologies frame our experience of the street. Using LED signs, YouTube, video games, and smartphone apps, JODI offer playful, frustrating, and ultimately revealing ways of looking at how we interact with technology.

SCHEDULE FOR “THREE STOOGES MATINEES,” MARCH 31–APRIL 15, 2012

Unless otherwise noted, screenings are included with Museum admission and take place at Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Avenue, in Astoria.

The Three Stooges: Women Haters (1934), Gents without Cents (1944), Dutiful but Dumb (1941)
Sunday, March 25, 12:30 p.m.

Approx. 60 mins. 35mm. The Stooges join a Women Haters Club in their first Columbia short; they play a vaudeville team that has a run-in with their alter-egos, dancers named Flo, Mary, and Shirley; and they are paparazzi for “Whack—The Illustrated Magazine.”

The Three Stooges: False Alarms (1936), Crash Goes the Hash (1944), Healthy, Wealthy, and Dumb (1938)
Saturday, March 31, 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. and Sunday, April 1, 12:00 p.m.

Approx. 60 mins. 35mm. Mayhem ensues with the Stooges as firefighters, delivery men turned reporters, and sweepstakes winners who check into the Hotel Costa Plente.

The Three Stooges: Grips, Grunts, and Groans (1937), From Nurse to Worse (1943), In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941)
Saturday, April 7, 12:00 p.m. and Sunday, April 8, 12:00 p.m.

Approx. 60 mins. 35mm. Curly finds grunt work as a sparring partner at the Hangover Athletic Club; he pretends that he is nuts by impersonating a dog as part of an insurance scam; and the boys get married, trading in wedding cake for custard pie. Also showing Sunday, April 8, 12:00 p.m.

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