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Silent Comedy
Marathon
Volume 10
(1912-1925)

Contents: The New Fire Chief (1912), A Fatal Sweet Tooth (1914), A Day on the Force (1915), The Feathered Nest (1916), The Blundering Blacksmiths (1917), The Wrong Mr. Fox (1917), Rowdy Ann (1919), The Dumb-Bell (1922) and Looking for Sally (1925).

Alpha Video
2019 DVD edition

Silent Comedy Marathon, Volume 10 (1912-1925), black & white, 147 minutes total, not rated, including The New Fire Chief (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Fatal Sweet Tooth (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Day on the Force (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Feathered Nest (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Blundering Blacksmiths (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Wrong Mr. Fox (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Rowdy Ann (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Dumb-Bell (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Looking for Sally (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8221D, UPC 0-89218-82219-2.
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: 16 April 2019.
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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