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"What are the top three Stooges shorts that fans would most like to see colorized?"
The Three Stooges' shorts were primarily filmed in black and white due to the technology and cost of color film in the 1930s to 1960s.
Colorizing black and white films is a complex process that involves manually adding color to each frame, which can take several months and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Legend Films, a company that specialized in colorizing classic films and TV shows, has made efforts to bring color to the Stooges' shorts.
The first three colorized Stooges' shorts were released on a DVD called "The Three Stooges in Colour" by Legend Films.
The first seven colorized Stooges' shorts are included in "The Three Stooges In Color Volume 1 Shorts 17" on YouTube.
Not all fans of the Stooges are in favor of colorization, as some believe it detracts from the original look and feel of the films.
Four public domain Stooges' shorts have been colorized and are available to watch on YouTube.
The colorization process is done frame-by-frame by artists who manually paint each scene, an expensive and time-consuming process.
The colorization of black and white films became popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but the practice has seen a resurgence in recent years.
The Three Stooges' shorts were produced by Columbia Pictures, which has since merged with Sony Pictures, who now owns the rights to the films.
The first colorized Three Stooges' short was "Punch Drunks" (1934), which was released on DVD by Legend Films.
The Three Stooges' shorts were known for their slapstick humor and physical comedy, which can still be appreciated in color or black and white.
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