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The Essential
Charlie Chaplin Collection
(1914)

Contents: Mabel’s Married Life (1914), Laughing Gas (1914) [Laffing Gas] (1914), The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914), Recreation (1914), The Masquerader (1914), His New Profession (1914) [The Good-for-Nothing] (1914) and The Rounders (1914).

Delta Entertainment
2003 DVD edition

The Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection (1914), black & white, 77 minutes total, not rated, including Mabel’s Married Life (1914), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Laughing Gas (1914) [Laffing Gas] (1914), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Recreation (1914), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, The Masquerader (1914), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, His New Profession (1914) [The Good-for-Nothing], black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, and The Rounders (1914), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated.

Delta Entertainment, 82 455, UPC 0-18111-24559-3.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc; 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 24 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.99.
Release date: 18 March 2003.
Country of origin: USA

This budget DVD collection follows the suit of other Chaplin collections: put as few films onto as many discs as possible, regardless of print quality and sell them as cheap as possible. And don’t expect them to be mastered from anything but subpar 16mm and 8mm reduction prints.

Don’t consider buying this collection for the Chaplin Mutual films. The Mutual films have all been released on DVD home video in far superior editions transferred from 35mm prints. Cobra Entertainment (successor to Delta) rereleased remaining stock of this disc onto the market in 2010.

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