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Silent Comedy
Marathon

Volume 1
(1911-1929)

 

Contents: Alkali Ike’s Automobile (1911), Bangville Police (1913), Dollars and Sense (1916), Ambition (1917), The Fast Mail-Man (1922), In the Grease! (1925), Stick Around (1925) and Crazy Doings (1929).

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2013 DVD edition

Silent Comedy Marathon, Volume 1 (1911-1929), black & white, 118 minutes total, not rated, including Alkali Ike’s Automobile (1911), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Bangville Police (1913), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Dollars and Sense (1916), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Ambition (1917), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, The Fast Mail-Man (1922), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, In the Grease! (1925), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Stick Around (1925), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, and Crazy Doings (1929), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7141D, UPC 0-89218-71419-0.
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; 4 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 27 August 2013.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has been mastered from a range of rough 8mm and 16mm reduction prints.

The films are accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting recordings.

We wouldn’t recommend this below-average disc but just a few of the films are available nowhere else on home video. Most of the films are available in better-looking editions elsewhere.

 
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