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Robert Harron
Rare Shorts
(1911-1914)

Contents: Bobby, the Coward (1911), Man’s Genesis (1912), The Little Tease (1913), The Reformers; or, The Lost Art of Minding One’s Business (1913), The Yaqui Cur (1913) and Brute Force (1914).

Silent Hall of Fame Enterprises
2016 DVD edition

Robert Harron Rare Shorts (1911-1914), black & white, 114 minutes total, not rated, including Bobby, the Coward (1911), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, Man’s Genesis (1912), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, The Little Tease (1913), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, The Reformers; or, The Lost Art of Minding One’s Business (1913), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, The Yaqui Cur (1913), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, and Brute Force (1914), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated.

Silent Hall of Fame Enterprises, 102, 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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; slimline CD jewelcase; $34.99 (raised again to $44.99).
Release date: 2016.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 35mm and/or 16mm and/or 8mm reduction prints (as might be surmised from the publisher-provided still frame above). Some films may have been mastered from a VHS videotape copy of the source print.

The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.

Reluctantly, this is our recommended home video edition of the film and we still criticize this publisher for their overpriced offerings that give the consumer as little value as possible.

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