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Silent Comedy
Marathon
Volume 5
(1916-1927)

Contents: Hungry Hearts (1916), He Looked Crooked [Why Ben Bolted] (1917), The Moonshiner (1920), Tuning Up (1921), Blowing Bubbles (1921), The Misfit (1924), Madame Sans Jane (1925), Spanking Breezes (1926), His Off Day (1926) and The Jolly Jilter (1927).

Alpha Video
2017 DVD edition

Silent Comedy Marathon, Volume 5 (1916-1927), black & white, 120 minutes total, not rated, including Hungry Hearts (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, He Looked Crooked [Why Ben Bolted] (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Moonshiner (1920), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Tuning Up (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Blowing Bubbles (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Misfit (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Madame Sans Jane (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Spanking Breezes (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, His Off Day (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Jolly Jilter (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7967D, UPC 0-89218-79679-0.
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; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 20 June 2017.
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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