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Billy Dooley
(1925-1929)

Contents: A Misfit Sailor (1925), Shore Shy (1926), A Briny Boob (1926), Dizzy Sights (1927), Sailor Beware (1927), The Dizzy Diver (1928) and Crazy Doings (1929).

Grapevine Video
2007 DVD edition

Billy Dooley (1925-1929), black & white, 83 minutes total, not rated, including A Misfit Sailor (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Shore Shy (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Briny Boob (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Dizzy Sights (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Sailor Beware (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Dizzy Diver (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Crazy Doings (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10271-4.
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, PCM 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $12.95.
Release date: April 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection of short Billy Dooley comedies has likely been mastered from 16mm reduction prints.

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

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