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Silent Comedy
Marathon

Volume 9
(1915-1928)

 

Contents: Pool Sharks (1915), Her Painted Hero (1915), A Two Cylinder Courtship (1917), The Cake Eater (1924), Scrambled Eggs (1925), All Tied Up (1925), Hard Boiled Yeggs (1926), Dizzy Sights (1927), and Slick Slickers (1928).

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2018 DVD edition

Silent Comedy Marathon, Volume 9 (1915-1928), black & white, 130 minutes total, not rated, including Pool Sharks (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Her Painted Hero (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Two Cylinder Courtship (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Cake Eater (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Scrambled Eggs (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, All Tied Up (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Hard Boiled Yeggs (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Dizzy Sights (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Slick Slickers (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8078D, UPC 0-89218-80789-2.
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 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: 15 May 2018.
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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