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Lost Comedy Classics
Volume 1
(1915-1933)

Contents: Our Dare-Devil Chief (1915), Dangerous Females (1929) and The Stage Hand (1933).

Alpha Video
2013 DVD edition

Lost Comedy Classics, Volume 1 (1915-1933), black & white, 67 minutes total, not rated, including Our Dare-Devil Chief (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Dangerous Females (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Stage Hand (1933), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6937D, UPC 0-89218-69379-2.
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: 26 February 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 music sources.

We wouldn’t recommend this below-average disc but a couple of these films are available nowhere else on home video. And . . . were these films truly lost?

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