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Hal Roach
Comedy Classics
(1920-1923)

Contents: Start the Show (1920), Long Fliv the King (1921), Strictly Modern (1922), Take the Next Car (1922) and Lodge Night (1923).

Alpha Video
2011 DVD edition

Hal Roach Comedy Classics (1920-1923),
black & white, 81 minutes total, not rated,
including Start the Show (1920), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Long Fliv the King (1921), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, Strictly Modern (1922), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Take the Next Car (1922), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, and Lodge Night (1923), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6684D, UPC 0-89218-66849-3.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 5 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 29 November 2011.
Country of origin: USA

This budget DVD-R collection has been mastered from a range of poor to fair 8mm reduction prints. Undocumented on the disc’s packaging is the inclusion of the Our Gang short Lodge Night (1923).

The films are accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting recordings.

We wouldn’t recommend this below-average disc but a few of the films are available nowhere else on home video.

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