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Charley Chase
From Keystone to
Hal Roach
(1914-1926)

Contents: Mabel’s Blunder (1914), Hash House Mashers (1915), Love in Armor (1915), Outdoor Pajamas (1924), A Ten-Minute Egg (1924), Big Red Riding Hood (1925) and Tell ’em Nothing (1926).

Alpha Video
2017 DVD edition

Charley Chase: From Keystone to Hal Roach (1914-1926), black & white, 83 minutes total, not rated, including Mabel’s Blunder (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Hash House Mashers (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Love in Armor (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Outdoor Pajamas (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Ten-Minute Egg (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Big Red Riding Hood (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Tell ’em Nothing (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8016D, UPC 0-89218-80169-2.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R 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 ? 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; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 30 November 2017.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm and/or 8mm reduction prints.

The films are likely accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting music recordings.

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