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The Harold Lloyd
Comedy Collection
Volume 1
(1919-1936)

Contents: Ask Father (1919), From Hand to Mouth (1919), An Eastern Westerner (1920), Safety Last (1923), Why Worry? (1923), Girl Shy (1924), The Cat’s-Paw (1934) and The Milky Way (1936).

New Line Home Entertainment
2005 DVD edition

The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, Volume 1 (1919-1936), black & white, color-toned black & white and color-tinted black & white, 420 minutes total, not rated, including Ask Father (1919), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, From Hand to Mouth (1919), color-tinted black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, An Eastern Westerner (1920), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Safety Last (1923), color-toned black & white, 73 minutes, not rated, Why Worry? (1923), black & white, 63 minutes, not rated, Girl Shy (1924), black & white, 80 minutes, not rated, The Cat’s-Paw (1934), black & white, 102 minutes, not rated, and The Milky Way (1936), black & white, 88 minutes, not rated.

New Line Home Entertainment, N8446, UPC 7-94043-84462-1, ISBN 0-7806-5289-4.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame and windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 1.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, English and Spanish language subtitles; closed captions; chapter stops; and one dual-sided, dual-layered (side A)/single-layered (side B) Region 1 NTSC DVD disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame and windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 1.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, English and Spanish language subtitles; closed captions; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 15 November 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This two-disc DVD collection is mastered from 35mm restoration prints overseen by The Harold Lloyd Trust, which should represent the best-surviving prints of these seven Harold Lloyd shorts and feature films. Safety Last is presented with audio commentary by Leonard Maltin and Rich Correll. Also included is the new documentary Harold’s Hollywood: Then and Now (2005).

For our comparative reviews of the individual silent films in this collection, see our Ask Father on home video, An Eastern Westerner on home video, From Hand to Mouth on home video, Girl Shy on home video, Safety Last on home video and Why Worry? on home video pages.

While long out-of-print, this collection still represents the best-available home video editions of some these wonderful films and recommend it highly, if you can find a copy.

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