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Charley Bowers
The Rediscovery of an
American Comic Genius
(1917-1940)
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Contents: Grill-Room Express [The Extra Quick Lunch] (1917), A.W.O.L.; or, All Wrong Old Laddiebuck (1919), Egged On (1926), Fatal Footsteps (1926), He Done His Best (1926), Now You Tell One (1926), Many a Slip (1927), Nothing Doing (1927), A Wild Roomer (1927), Say Ah-h! (1928) [fragment], It’s a Bird (1930), Believe It or Don’t (1935), Pete Roleum and His Cousins (1938), Wild Oysters (1940) and A Sleepless Night (1940).
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Lobster Films
2004 DVD edition
Charley Bowers: The Rediscovery of an American Comic Genius (1917-1940), black & white, 279 minutes total, not rated, including Grill-Room Express [The Extra Quick Lunch] (1917), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, A.W.O.L.; or, All Wrong Old Laddiebuck (1919), black & white, 5 minutes, not rated, Egged On (1926), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Fatal Footsteps (1926), black & white, 22 minutes. not rated, He Done His Best (1926), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Now You Tell One (1926), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Many a Slip (1927), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Nothing Doing (1927), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, A Wild Roomer (1927), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Say Ah-h! (1928) [fragment], black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, It’s a Bird (1930), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, Believe It or Don’t (1935), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, Pete Roleum and His Cousins (1938), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, Wild Oysters (1940), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, A Sleepless Night (1940), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated.
Lobster Films, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID2268LQDVD, UPC 0-14381-22682-9.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 5.1 surround sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate, and Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; French language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; double-wide two-disc DVD keepcase; $24.99.
Release date: 24 February 2004.
Country of origin: USA •
Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 7 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.
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