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The Forgotten Films
of Roscoe ‘Fatty’
Arbuckle

(1913-1932)
on

Contents: Fatty Joins the Force (1913), A Flirt’s Mistake (1914), The Knockout (1914), The Rounders (1914), Leading Lizzie Astray (1914), Mabel and Fatty’s Wash Day (1915), Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life (1915), Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915), Fatty’s New Role (1915), Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life (1915), Fatty’s Reckless Fling (1915), Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance (1915), That Little Band Of Gold (1915), Fatty’s Faithful Fido (1915), When Love Took Wings (1915), Wished on Mabel (1915), Mabel’s Wilful Way (1915), Fatty’s Plucky Pup (1915), Fatty’s Tintype Tangle (1915), He Did and He Didn’t (1916) [two versions], The Waiters’ Ball (1916), Coney Island (1917), Love (1919), Leap Year (1922), Character Studies (1923), Curses (1925), The Movies (1925), My Stars (1926), Fool’s Luck (1926), Bridge Wives (1932).

2005 Mackinac Media edition

The Forgotten Films of Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle (1913-1932), black & white and color-toned black & white, 625 minutes, not rated.

Mackinac Media, MM0006D, UPC 6-89076-96352-7.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, four single-sided, dual-layered? DVD discs, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $49.95.
DVD release date: 24 May 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This collection contains 32 comedies directed by and starring Roscoe Arbuckle, and also feature Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Ford Sterling, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, Jackie Coogan, Al St. John, Mack Swain, Edgar Kennedy, Charley Chase, Monty Banks, Lloyd Hamilton and Lupino Lane. The disc has been mastered from archival materials, or from the only known surviving print. The films feature restored intertitles, and several include previously lost or alternate footage. The presentation features newly-created music scores by Philip Carli, David Drazin, Ben Model, The Mont Alto Orchestra, The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Rodney Sauer and Donald Sosin.

 
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.
This Region 0 NTSC box set may be ordered directly from Mackinac Media.
Other Roscoe Arbuckle films available on DVD home video:
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One (1917-1919)
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two (1917-1920)
The Best Arbuckle Keaton Collection (1917-1918)
The Cook and Other Treasures (1917-1920)
Slapstick Encyclopedia (1909-1929)
Roscoe Arbuckle filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List
 
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