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Big Boy in
6 Rare Shorts
(1925-1927)

Contents: Baby Be Good (1925), My Kid (1926), In the Backyard (1926), Raisin’ Cain (1926), She’s a Boy (1927) and Grandpa’s Boy (1927).

Grapevine Video
2013 DVD edition

Big Boy in 6 Rare Shorts (1925-1927), black & white, 96 minutes total, not rated, including Baby Be Good (1925), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, My Kid (1926), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, In the Backyard (1926), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, Raisin’ Cain (1926), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, She’s a Boy (1927), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, and Grandpa’s Boy (1927), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, 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; $16.95.
Release date: August 2013.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm reduction prints.

Four of the films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed by David Knudtson.

This is our recommended home video edition of the film.

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