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Leap Year
(1922)

Roscoe Arbuckle’s last feature film was pulled from the Paramount release schedule in the USA in the wake of the Virginia Rappé death scandal. Instead, the film was released in Europe to hopefully earn back its production costs in a market that was not so enamored with the sensationalized and not-so-factual American newspaper reports.

Mackinac Media
2005 DVD edition

The Forgotten Films of Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle (1913-1932), black & white and color-toned black & white, 625 minutes total, not rated, including Leap Year (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Mackinac Media, MM0006D, UPC 6-89076-96352-7.
Four single-sided, dual-layered?, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; four-disc DVD keepcase; $49.95.
Release date: 24 May 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD collection contains 32 comedies directed by and starring Roscoe Arbuckle, and also feature Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Ford Sterling, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, Jackie Coogan, Al St. John, Mack Swain, Edgar Kennedy, Charley Chase, Monty Banks, Lloyd Hamilton and Lupino Lane. The disc has been mastered from archival materials, or from the only known surviving print. The films feature restored intertitles, and several include previously lost or alternate footage.

The presentation features newly-created music scores by Philip Carli, David Drazin, Ben Model, The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Rodney Sauer and Donald Sosin.

As of 2008, this four-disc collection is out-of-print and can only be found as a sell-out or used item.

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Reelclassicdvd.com
201? DVD edition

Leap Year (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with A Cure for Pokeritis (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Reelclassicdvd.com, no catalog number, UPC 7-62184-94422-7.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $20.00.
Release date: 201?
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

The film is presented with a soundtrack comprised of vintage jazz recordings.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
REELCLASSIC DVD through . . .

Alpha Video
2015 DVD edition

Leap Year (1922), black & white, 70 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7703D, UPC 0-89218-77039-4.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 1 September 2015.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.

Not recommended, even though we haven’t viewed the edition, but we are open to surprises.

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Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition

Leap Year (1922), black & white, 56 minutes, not rated.

Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
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; $14.99.
Release date: 201?
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .