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Chaplin’s
Essanay Comedies

Volume 3
(1915-1918)
on

Contents: Shanghaied (1915), A Night in the Show (1915), Carmen (1916), Police! (1916) and Triple Trouble (1918).

1999 Image Entertainment edition

Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Volume 3 (1915-1918), black & white and color-toned black & white, 131 minutes total, not rated.

Image Entertainment, ID5415DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-54152-6.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 0, 6.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles (released in keep case), no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, snapper case (released in keep case), $24.99.
DVD release date: 28 September 1999.
Country of origin: USA

We have viewed this DVD release. On our first viewing of the first two volumes in this series, we were impressed immediately by the fact that each of the Essanay comedies on the DVDs included footage we had never seen before — not on videotape or laserdisc. Each film showed moderate to fantastic improvement in picture quality over the previously available best home video versions. Video producer David Shepard has done it again by locating some of the best surviving prints worldwide and bringing them together on home video. Based on our initial impression of these DVDs, we recommend them without reservation.

Read our reviews of Volume 1 and Volume 2 from this series.

 
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

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)
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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