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Accidentally
Preserved
Volume 1
(1920-1931)

Contents: The Water Plug (1920), Mechanical Doll (1922), Shoot Straight (1923), Cheer Up (1924), The Misfit (1924), Loose Change (1928), The Lost Laugh (1928), Wedding Slips (1928) and The House of Wonders (circa 1931).

This collection of mostly short comedies has been produced from 16mm reduction prints held by Ben Model.

Undercrank Productions
2013 DVD edition

Accidentally Preserved, Volume 1 (1920-1931), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 103 minutes total, not rated, including The Water Plug (1920), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Mechanical Doll (1922), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, Shoot Straight (1923), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Cheer Up (1924), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, The Misfit (1924), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Loose Change (1928), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, The Lost Laugh (1928), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, Wedding Slips (1928), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, and The House of Wonders (circa 1931), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated.

Undercrank Productions, no catalog number, UPC 8-86470-68544-8.
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; $19.95.
Release date: 6 June 2013.
Country of origin: USA