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The Essential
Charlie Chaplin Collection
(1914-1915)

Contents: The New Janitor (1914), Those Love Pangs (1914) [The Rival Mashers] (1914), His Musical Career (1914) [The Musical Tramp], Getting Acquainted (1914) [A Fair Exchange], His New Job (1915), A Night Out (1915) and The Champion (1915).

Delta Entertainment
2003 DVD edition

The Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection (1914-1915), black & white, 113 minutes total, not rated, including The New Janitor (1914), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Those Love Pangs (1914) [The Rival Mashers] (1914), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, His Musical Career (1914) [The Musical Tramp], black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Getting Acquainted (1914) [A Fair Exchange], black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, His New Job (1915), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, A Night Out (1915), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, and The Champion (1915), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated.

Delta Entertainment, 82 456, UPC 0-18111-24569-2.
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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