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Ambrose
Comedies
(1915)

Contents: Ambrose’s Fury (1915), Ambrose’s Lofty Perch (1915), Ambrose’s Nasty Temper (1915), Ambrose’s Sour Grapes (1915), Those Bitter Sweets (1915), When Ambrose Dared Walrus (1915), and Willful Ambrose (1915).

Alpha Video
2016 DVD edition

Ambrose Comedies (1915), black & white, 100 minutes total, not rated, including Ambrose’s Fury (1915), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Ambrose’s Lofty Perch (1915), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Ambrose’s Nasty Temper (1915), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Ambrose’s Sour Grapes (1915), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Those Bitter Sweets (1915), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, When Ambrose Dared Walrus (1915), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, and Willful Ambrose (1915), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7762D, UPC 0-89218-77629-7.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 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 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; 7 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 1 March 2016.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection of Ambrose comedies has been mastered from old VHS videotape copies of transfers from 8mm reduction prints and the results are generally awful.

The films are accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting recordings.

Not recommended. It says something when our old VHS videotape copies of these films look better than this disc. A shameful ripoff.

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