Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Heavy Love
(1926)
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This short comedy stars Frank Alexander, Hilliard ‘Fat’ Karr and Kewpie Ross, with Lois Boyd.
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 All Day Entertainment
2006 DVD edition
American Slapstick (1914-1929), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 279 minutes total, not rated,
including Heavy Love (1926), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated.
All Day Entertainment, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ADE3581DVD, UPC 0-14381-35812-4.
Three single-sided, single-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in windowboxed and 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, chapter stops; three-disc DVD keepcase; $39.99.
Release date: 21 November 2006.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition has been mastered from a very-good 16mm reduction print provided by Mark Roth.
The majority of the films feature musical accompaniment by Ben Model, with additional accompaniment by Bernie Anderson Jr and Ray Brubacher, and one film accompanied by preexisting recordings.
The supplemental material includes a short film from the 1960s featuring clips from silent films (5 minutes) and a PDF copy of The Charlie Chaplin Book (1916).
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 Reelclassicdvd.com
2004 DVD edition
A Festival of Silent Comedy, Volume 2 (1916-1926), black & white, 93 minutes total, not rated,
including Heavy Love (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Reelclassicdvd.com, no catalog number, UPC 7-62184-87622-1.
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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; no chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $20.00.
Release date: 2004.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is presented with a music score performed by Ben Model.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from Reelclassicdvd.com through . . .
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Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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