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Billy Dooley
Volume Two
(1927-1929)

Contents: Dumb Belles (1927), Wild Wallops (1927), Water Bugs (1928), Campus Cuties (1928), Sea Food (1928), Gobs of Love (1928), Happy Heels (1929) and Off the Deck (1929).

Grapevine Video
2017 Blu-ray Disc edition

Billy Dooley, Volume Two (1925-1929), black & white, 95 minutes total, not rated, including Dumb Belles (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Wild Wallops (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Water Bugs (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Campus Cuties (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Sea Food (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Gobs of Love (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Happy Heels (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Off the Deck (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R BDMV); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at ? Mbps average video bit rate; LPCM 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard BD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 21 July 2017.
Country of origin: USA

This Blu-ray Disc (BD-R) collection of short Billy Dooley comedies has likely been mastered from 16mm reduction prints, most of them from 1940s rerelease prints.

Six of the films are accompanied by music and narration soundtracks from their 1940s vintage source prints; two are accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting recordings.

This Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R) edition is available directly from . . .

Grapevine Video
2017 DVD edition

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
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 ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: 21 July 2017.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection of short Billy Dooley comedies has likely been mastered from 16mm reduction prints, most of them from 1940s rerelease prints.

Six of the films are accompanied by music and narration soundtracks from their 1940s vintage source prints; two are accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting recordings.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .

Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

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