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Peck’s Bad Boy
(1921)
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 Alpha Video
2012 DVD edition
Peck’s Bad Boy (1921), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6731D, UPC 0-89218-67319-0.
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 7.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 14 February 2012.
Country of origin: USA
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This budget DVD edition has been mastered from a good 16mm reduction print that is a bit grey and flat.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting low-fidelity recordings.
The best home video edition of Peck’s Bad Boy remains the long out-of-print Republic Home Video laserdisc edition from 1991. The only thing in this DVD edition’s favor is that is in-print and immediately available.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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Other silent era JACKIE COOGAN films available on home video.
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