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Larry Semon Shorts
Volume One
(1918-1927)

Contents: Dunces and Dangers (1918), The Bell Hop (1921), The Sawmill (1922), The Show (1922), Kid Speed (1924) and The Stunt Man (1927).

Grapevine Video
2005 DVD edition

Larry Semon Shorts, Volume One (1918-1927), black & white, 114 minutes total, not rated, including Dunces and Dangers (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Bell Hop (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Sawmill (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Show (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Kid Speed (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Stunt Man (1927), black & white, ? 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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: 2005.
Country of origin: USA

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

The films are accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting music recordings.

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