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Accidentally
Preserved
Volume 2
(1919-1929)
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Contents: Charley on the Farm (1919), Why Wild Men Go Wild (1920), Sherlock’s Home (1924), Christmas Seals Film (1925), The Little Pest (1927), Papa’s Boy (1927), Cook, Papa, Cook (1928), How Jimmy Won the Game (1928) and Helter Skelter (1929).
This collection of mostly short comedies has been produced from 16mm reduction prints held by Ben Model.
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Undercrank Productions
2014 DVD edition
Accidentally Preserved, Volume 2 (1919-1929), black & white, 104 minutes total, not rated, including Charley on the Farm (1919), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Why Wild Men Go Wild (1920), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Sherlock’s Home (1924), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Christmas Seals Film (1925), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, The Little Pest (1927), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Papa’s Boy (1927), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, Cook, Papa, Cook (1928), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, How Jimmy Won the Game (1928), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, and Helter Skelter (1929), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated.
Undercrank Productions, no catalog number, UPC 8-87936-72611-8.
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 6.4 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 16 January 2014.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 8 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.
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