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30 Years of Fun
(1963)

Robert Youngson’s 30 Years of Fun (1963) is another focus on the short comedies of the silent era.

2007 TeleVista edition

30 Years of Fun (1963), black & white, 85 minutes, not rated.

TeleVista, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $24.95.
DVD release date: 9 October 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This edition may have been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

 
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 comedy collections available on home video:
The Art of Buster Keaton (1920-1962)
Billy Dooley (1925-1929)
The Chaplin Collection, Volume 1 (1925-1952)
The Chaplin Collection, Volume 2 (1918-1957)
Chaplin: Collector’s Choice Double Feature (1914-1918)
Chaplin: Early Masterpieces (1915-1918)
The Chaplin Mutuals, Volume 1 (1917)
The Chaplin Mutuals, Volume 2 (1916)
The Chaplin Mutuals, Volume 3 (1916)
The Chaplin Mutual Comedies, 90th Anniversary Edition (1916-1917)
The Chaplin Revue (1918-1923)
Chaplin: The Artist In His Prime (1914-1925)
Chaplin Sakuhin Shuu 5 (1917)
Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Volume 1 (1915)
Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Volume 2 (1915)
Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Volume 3 (1915-1918)
Chaplin: The Collection (1914-19??)
Charles Chaplin: A First National Collection (1918-1923)
The Charley Chase Collection (1924-1926)
The Charley Chase Collection II (1922-1926)
Charley Chase: Jimmy Jump Series (1923-1925)
Charlie Chaplin: 57 Classics (1914-1921)
Charlie Chaplin Marathon (1914-1917)
Charlie Chaplin Short Comedy Classics (1915-1918)
The Comedy of Max Linder (1905-1913)
Early Silent Classics of Laurel and Hardy, Volume 1 (1922-1926)
Early Silent Classics of Laurel and Hardy, Volume 2 (1917-1926)
Early Silent Classics of Laurel and Hardy, Volume 3 (1924-1943)
Early Silent Classics of Laurel and Hardy, Volume 4 (1922-1926)
The Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection (1914-1921)
Famous Comedy Legends, Volume 1 (1915-1927)
Famous Comedy Legends, Volume 2 (1916-1928)
Fatty Arbuckle Festival (1913-1915)
A Festival of Silent Comedy, Volume 5 (1914-1927)
The Films of Bobby Vernon (1927-1929)
The Films of Lige Conley (1926-1928)
The Films of Monty Banks (1923-1924)
The Forgotten Films of Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle (1913-1932)
Hal Roach’s Rascals (1925-1938)
“Ham” The Lost Magic of Lloyd Hamilton (1915-1932)
The Harold Lloyd Collection (1918-1922)
The Harold Lloyd Collection II (1918-1921)
The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, Volume 1 (1919-1936)
The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, Volume 2 (1919-1930)
The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, Volume 3 (1920-1932)
The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection Boxset (1919-1936)
Harry Langdon: The Forgotten Clown (1926-1927)
Keystone Kops Festival / Buster Keaton Festival (1913-1922)
Larry Semon, An Underrated Genius, Volumes 1 and 2 (1917-1927)
Larry Semon, Volume 1 (1918-1927)
Larry Semon, Volume 2 (1917-1925)
Laugh with Max Linder (1908-1921)
The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, Volume One (1918-1929)
The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, Volume Two (1923-1929)
The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, Volume Three (1922-1929)
The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, Volume Four (1924-1936)
The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, Volume Five (1924-1929)
The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, Volume Six (1923-1929)
The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, Volume Seven (1927-1934)
The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, Volume Eight (1923-1928)
The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, Volume Nine (1926-1928)
Mabel Normand Films (1913-1916)
The Oliver Hardy Collection (1921-1927)
Our Gang, Volume 1 (1922-1923)
Silent Comedy Mafia, Volume 1 (1918-1928)
SlapHappy, Volume 1 (2003)
SlapHappy, Volume 2 (2003)
SlapHappy, Volume 3 (2003)
SlapHappy, Volume 4 (2003)
SlapHappy, Volume 5 (2003)
SlapHappy, Volume 6 (2003)
SlapHappy, Volume 7 (2003)
SlapHappy, Volume 8 (2003)
SlapHappy, Volume 9 (2003)
SlapHappy, Volume 10 (2003)
Slapstick Encyclopedia (1909-1929)
Slapstick Masters (1917-1929)
Smiles and Spectacles: A Harold Lloyd Treasury (1917-1947)
Snooky the Chimp (1920-1921)
The Stan Laurel Collection, Volume 1 (1923-1925)
The Stan Laurel Collection, Volume 2 (1918-1926)

Other silent era-related documentaries available on home video:
American Experience: Mary Pickford (2005)
Before Hollywood, There Was Fort Lee, N.J. (1964)
Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982)
Birth of a Legend (1966)
Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965)
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (2001)
The Chaplin Puzzle (1992)
Chaplin’s Art of Comedy (1966)
Chaplin’s Goliath (1996)
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years (2003)
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)
Clara Bow: Discovering the ‘It’ Girl (1999)
Discovering Cinema (1908-2004)
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler (1976)
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006)
The Film Parade: A History of Early Cinema (1933-1947)
Forgotten Silver (1997)
Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny (1998)
The Gentleman Tramp (1975)
The Great Chase (1963)
Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy (1962)
Kingdom of Shadows (1998)
The Last Diva: Francesca Bertini (1982)
Laurel and Hardy’s Laughing 20s (1965)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1982)
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon (2004)
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998)
The Man You Loved to Hate (1979)
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1997)
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde (1997)
Memories of the Silent Stars
Olive Thomas: Everybody’s Sweetheart (2004)
Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat (1977)
The Railrodder (1965)
Rudolph Valentino: The Great Lover (2006)
Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography (1996)
Silent Britain (2006)
Slaphappy: The Movie (2004)
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton at MGM (2004)
Unknown Chaplin (1983)
Victor Sjöström (1981)
The Way to Murnau (2003)
When Comedy Was King (1960)
Without Lying Down (2000)

 
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