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Silent Comedy
Marathon
Volume 8
(1912-1929)

Contents: A Grocery Clerk’s Romance (1912), Petticoat Camp (1912), A Flirt’s Mistake (1914), Leading Lizzie Astray (1914), The Home Breakers (1915), Bathing Beauties and Big Boobs (1918), The Janitor (1919), Heavy Seas (1923) and The Rodeo (1929).

Alpha Video
2018 DVD edition

Silent Comedy Marathon, Volume 8 (1912-1929), black & white, 142 minutes total, not rated, including A Grocery Clerk’s Romance (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Petticoat Camp (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Flirt’s Mistake (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Leading Lizzie Astray (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Home Breakers (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Bathing Beauties and Big Boobs (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Janitor (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Heavy Seas (1923), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Rodeo (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8040D, UPC 0-89218-80409-9.
One single-sided, dual-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: 13 February 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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