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His New Profession
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 1999 Madacy Entertainment edition
His New Profession (1914) [rereleased as The Good-for-Nothing], black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, with Cruel, Cruel Love (1914), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, A Film Johnnie (1914), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, Tango Tangles (1914) [rereleased as Charlie’s Recreation], black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Work (1915), black & white, 27 minutes, not rated, and Triple Trouble (1918), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated.
Madacy Entertainment Group, DVD9 9103, UPC 0-56775-03619-5.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one double-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 1, 3 Mbps average video bit rate, 448 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 3 chapter stops, keep case, $11.98.
DVD release date: 2 March 1999.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 3 / audio: 4 / additional content: 1 / overall: 3.
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 This edition has been mastered from a good 16mm reduction print of the 1918 rerelease version of the film, which had been reedited with new intertitles and released with a new film title. The source print is quite cropped in its top and left sides. On most monitors, standard or HD, heads will be cut off and players cut in half by the errant cropping.
Far from ideal, with so many budget video producers releasing the film in cheap DVD sets, it is unlikely that that edition will be better to worse than any other until a quality edition is produced.
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com. |
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Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca. |
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 1999 Madacy Entertainment edition
His New Profession (1914) [rereleased as The Good-for-Nothing], black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, with Cruel, Cruel Love (1914), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, A Film Johnnie (1914), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, Tango Tangles (1914) [rereleased as Charlie’s Recreation], black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Work (1915), black & white, 27 minutes, not rated, and Triple Trouble (1918), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated.
Madacy Entertainment Group, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, two single-sided, single-layered DVD discs, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 3 chapter stops, keep case, unknown suggested retail price.
DVD release date: 1999.
Country of origin: USA
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A repackaging of the same Madacy DVD program reviewed above was also issued under a different title and on two discs, with a slipcase wraparound, as Chaplin: Hollywood Classics. No doubt, just as rough.
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com. |
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Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca. |
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 1998 Madacy Entertainment edition
His New Profession (1914) [rereleased as The Good-for-Nothing], black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, with Cruel, Cruel Love (1914), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, A Film Johnnie (1914), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, Tango Tangles (1914) [rereleased as Charlie’s Recreation], black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Work (1915), black & white, 27 minutes, not rated, and Triple Trouble (1918), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, and other Chaplin short films.
Madacy Entertainment Group, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, five single-sided, single-layered DVD discs, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 3 chapter stops, keep case, unknown suggested retail price.
DVD release date: 1998.
Country of origin: USA
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Yet another Madacy repackaging, this a box set, of the content reviewed above. Have they no shame in their repackaging attempts to deceive the consumer?
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com. |
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Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca. |
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Other silent era Charles Chaplin films 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)
Cruel, Cruel Love (1914)
A Film Johnnie (1914)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Kid (1921)
The Rink (1917)
Tango Tangles (1914)
Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914)
Triple Trouble (1918)
A Woman of Paris (1923)
Work (1915)
Chaplin-related films available on DVD home video:
Chaplin’s Goliath (1996)
Unknown Chaplin (1983)
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