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Mack Sennett
Comedy Shorts

(1915-1927)

 

Contents: Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance (1915), Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers (1915), A Versatile Villain (1915), Bath Tub Perils (1916), His Naughty Thought (1917), Off His Trolley (1924), Circus Today (1926), Saturday Afternoon (1926) and Love in a Police Station (1927).

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2013 DVD edition

Mack Sennett Comedy Shorts (1915-1927), black & white, 130 minutes total, not rated, including Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Versatile Villain (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Bath Tub Perils (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, His Naughty Thought (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Off His Trolley (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Circus Today (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Saturday Afternoon (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Love in a Police Station (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6976D, UPC 0-89218-69769-1.
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; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 28 May 2013.
Country of origin: USA
This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from a 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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