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Silent Comedy
Marathon
Volume 3
(1914-1929)

Contents: The Adventure of the Wrong Santa Claus (1914), A Busy Day (1914), Settled at the Seaside (1915), Love in a Hurry (1919), The Haunted House (1921), The Big Idea (1924), One Wet Night (1924), The Iron Mule (1925), Sea Legs (1925) and The Big Shot (1929).

Alpha Video
2013 DVD edition

Silent Comedy Marathon, Volume 3 (1914-1929), black & white, 123 minutes total, not rated, including The Adventure of the Wrong Santa Claus (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Busy Day (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Settled at the Seaside (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Love in a Hurry (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Haunted House (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Big Idea (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, One Wet Night (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Iron Mule (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Sea Legs (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Big Shot (1929), 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: 31 December 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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