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Silent Comedy
Classics Collection
Volume 9
(1914-1924)

Contents: Getting Acquainted (1914), The Knockout (1914), Mabel and Fatty’s Wash Day (1915), The Adventurer (1917) and Stolen Goods (1924).

Alpha Video
2023 DVD edition

Silent Comedy Classics Collection, Volume 9 (1914-1924), black & white, 78 minutes total, not rated, including Getting Acquainted (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Knockout (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Mabel and Fatty’s Wash Day (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Adventurer (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Stolen Goods (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8536D, UPC 0-89218-85369-1.
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; standard DVD keepcase; $8.98.
Release date: 5 September 2023.
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.

We wouldn’t recommend this below-average disc but some of these films are available nowhere else on home video.

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