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The Chaplin
Collection
Volume 2
(1918-2003)

Contents: A Dog’s Life (1918), How to Make Movies (1918), Harry Lauder (1918), The Bond (1918), Shoulder Arms (1918), Sunnyside (1919), A Day’s Pleasure (1919), The Kid (1921), The Idle Class (1921), My Boy (1921), Nice and Friendly (1922), Pay Day (1922), The Pilgrim (1923), A Woman of Paris (1923), Camille (1926), The Circus (1928), City Lights (1931), A King in New York (1957) and Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003).

Warner Home Video
2004 DVD edition

The Chaplin Collection, Volume 2 (1918-2003), black & white, 949 minutes total, not rated, except The Circus, City Lights, and A King in New York, Rated G.

Warner Home Video, 37967,
UPC 0-85393-79672-3, ISBN 0-7907-8203-0.
Ten single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital48 kHz 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Thai language subtitles; chapter stops; and two single-sided, single-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Thai language subtitles; chapter stops; seven cardboard wraps with plastic DVD trays in cardboard box; $99.98.
Release date: 9 March 2004.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD boxset from Warner Home Video was officially sanctioned by the Estate of Charles Chaplin. Of the films in the boxset, only Monsieur Verdox, A King in New York and the documentary do not harken from the silent era.