And the Hi, this is Gilbert Godfrey's amazing colossal podcast with my co-host Frank Santo

Padre. 80 years ago this week movie audience who were first introduced to a comedy team that had already made their

mark on the Burles Sage and on radio. The movie was one night in the Tropics and the comedy team was Bud Abbott and

Lou Costello.

To celebrate that silver screen anniversary, Frank and I have assembled a panel of experts to pay tribute

to two of the greatest and most beloved comedians of all times.

Bob Ferminek is an award-winning producer,

author, historian, archivist,

and president and founder of the 3D film archive, the first organization

dedicated to saving and preserving our stereoscopic film heritage.

Bob has restored original 3D elements of more than 30 features and two dozen shorts from 1922 to 1955, known as the

Golden Age of 3D cinema and he recently launched a

Kickstarter campaign to restore and preserve two Abboton Costello films Africa Screams and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Bob also enjoyed a long professional associations with both Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and served

as an archivist to the personal estates of But Abbott and Lou Costello.

Ron Palumbo is an advertising creative director who's worked on dozens of famous campaigns and won every

industry award. He's also the world's leading authority on Mr Abbott and Mr. Costello and the founder of the official Abbott and

Costello fan club along with Bob he co-authored the essential book Abboten

Costello in Hollywood and the author of two must have books in the Universal Film Scripts series, Buck Privates, the screenplay,

and whole that ghost the screenplay play in addition to providing a liner notes and audio

commentaries for many Abboten Costello releases. Ron has written essays for the Library of Congress on

who's on first and Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein and a TV personality and internationally recognized film scholar and

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