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Silent Comedy
Classics Collection
Volume 8
(1913-1922)
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Contents: How Fatty Made Good, Colored Villainy (1915), Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life (1915), Mike and Meyer in the Store (1915) and Mixed Nuts (1922).
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 Alpha Video
2023 DVD edition
Silent Comedy Classics Collection, Volume 8 (1913-1922), black & white, 68 minutes total, not rated,
including How Fatty Made Good (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Colored Villainy (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Mike and Meyer in the Store (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Mixed Nuts (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8535D, UPC 0-89218-85359-2.
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 ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $8.98.
Release date: 1 August 2023.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm or 8mm reduction prints.
The films are likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music sources.
Probably not a great presentation but, for some of these films, this is the only home video edition of the film we know of.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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