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Silent Comedy
Marathon
Volume 2
(1908-1927)

Contents: Ben in Society (1908), Those Awful Hats (1909), At the Ringside (1917), Snooky’s Fresh Heir (1921), Beauty a la Mud (1926), Breezing Along (1927) and Mitt the Prince (1927).

Alpha Video
2013 DVD edition

Silent Comedy Marathon, Volume 2 (1908-1927), black & white, 114 minutes total, not rated, including Ben in Society (1908), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Those Awful Hats (1909), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, At the Ringside (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Snooky’s Fresh Heir (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Beauty a la Mud (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Breezing Along (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Mitt the Prince (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7259D, UPC 0-89218-72599-8.
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; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 27 August 2013.
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 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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