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Slapstick Masters
(1917-1929)
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Contents : Easy Street (1917), One Week (1920), Chasing Choo-Choos (1927) [condensed version of the feature comedy Play Safe (1927)], and Big Business (1929).

This compilation of previously-available material from video producer David Shepard features newly-recorded musical accompaniment by the quirky Alloy Orchestra.

2003 Image Entertainment edition

Slapstick Masters (1917-1929), black & white, 87 minutes, not rated.

Image Entertainment, ID1897DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-18972-8.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language subtitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $24.99.
DVD release date: 15 July 2003.
Country of origin: USA

This disc features video transfers of the four films that have been released elsewhere: Easy Street from the Chaplin Mutual Comedies collection, One Week from the Kino Saphead release, and Chasing Choo-Choos from the Slapstick Encyclopedia box set, all produced for video by David Shepard. Only Big Business could be a different transfer than the Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, Volume One edition released on DVD by Hal Roach Studios.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other silent era comedy collections available on DVD home video:
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One (1917-1919)
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two (1918-1920)
The Art of Buster Keaton (1920-1962)
The Best Arbuckle Keaton Collection (1917-1918)
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)
The Cook and Other Treasures (1917-1920)
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)
Hal Roach’s Rascals (1925-1938)
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)
Harry Langdon: The Forgotten Clown (1926-1927)
Keystone Comedies, Number 1 (1915-1917)
Keystone Comedies, Number 2 (1915)
Keystone Films, Volume 1 (1915-1916)
Keystone Kops Festival / Buster Keaton Festival (1913-1922)
Krazy Keystone Komedies (1914-1915)
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)
Slapstick Encyclopedia (1909-1929)
Snooky the Chimp (1920-1921)
The Stan Laurel Collection (1923-1925)

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