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The Alice Howell
Collection

(1914-1925)

 

Contents: Shot in the Excitement (1914), Father Was a Loafer (1915), Under New Management (1915), How Stars Are Made (1916), Neptune’s Naughty Daughter (1917), In Dutch (1918), Distilled Love (1920), His Wooden Legacy (1920), Her Lucky Day (1920), Cinderella Cinders (1920), A Convict’s Happy Bride (1920) and Under a Spell (1925).

coverUndercrank Productions
2019 DVD edition

The Alice Howell Collection (1914-1925), black & white, 217 minutes total, not rated,
including Shot in the Excitement (1914), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, Father Was a Loafer (1915), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Under New Management (1915), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, How Stars Are Made (1916), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Neptune’s Naughty Daughter (1917), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, In Dutch (1918), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, Distilled Love (1920), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, His Wooden Legacy (1920), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, Her Lucky Day (1920), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Cinderella Cinders (1920), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, A Convict’s Happy Bride (1920), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, and Under a Spell (1925), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated.

Undercrank Productions, no catalog number, UPC 6-47213-97019-7.
Two single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R discs; 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 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $24.95.
Release date: 5 March 2019.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 8 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.

This DVD-R collection has been mastered from 35mm and 16mm reduction prints.

The film is accompanied by music scores composed and performed by Ben Model.

For our reviews of some of the individual films, see our Cinderella Cinders on home video and Shot in the Excitement on home video pages.

A great and fun short film collection and it is highly recommended.

 
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