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Forgotten Funnymen:
Al St. John
(1915-1932)
 

Contents: Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life (1915), The Waiters’ Ball (1916), Stupid, But Brave (1924) and Bridge Wives (1932).
Alpha Video
2012 DVD edition

Forgotten Funnymen: Al St. John (1915-1932), black & white, 69 minutes total, not rated, including Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Waiters’ Ball (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Stupid, But Brave (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Bridge Wives (1932), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6755D, UPC 0-89218-67559-0.
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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $6.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 17 April 2012.
Country of origin: USA
This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm and/or 8mm reduction prints.

The films are likely presented with soundtracks compiled from preexisting low-fi recordings.

We don’t recommend this below-average disc since some of the films are available elsewhere in better-looking home video editions.

 
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