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The Chaplin Collection
Volume 1
(1925-1952)
on

Contents: The Gold Rush (1925), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940) and Limelight (1952).

2003 Warner Home Video edition

The Chaplin Collection, Volume 1 (1925-1952), black & white, 410 minutes total, Rated G except The Gold Rush not rated.

Warner Home Video, 37942, UPC 0-85393-79422-4.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, four single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs and four single-sided, single-layered DVD discs, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English intertitles, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Thai subtitles, chapter stops, plastic trays in cardboard wrappers with slipcases, $79.95.
DVD release date: 1 July 2003.
Country of origin: USA

These editions from Warner Home Video are officially sanctioned by the Estate of Charles Chaplin. Of the four films in the box set, only The Gold Rush harkens from the silent era. Our notes on this edition of that film are located on our The Gold Rush on DVD home video page.

 
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Other silent era Charles Chaplin DVDs available on DVD home video:
Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies Volume 1 (1915)
Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies Volume 2 (1915)
Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies Volume 3 (1915-1918)
The Chaplin Mutual Comedies, 90th Anniversary Edition (1916-1917)
The Chaplin Revue (1918-1923)
The Circus (1928)
City Lights (1931)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Kid (1921)
Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914)
A Woman of Paris (1923)

Chaplin-related films available on DVD home video:
Chaplin’s Goliath (1996)
Unknown Chaplin (1983)

Charles Chaplin filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List
 
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