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When Comedy Was King
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Robert Youngson’s When Comedy Was King (1960) was an introduction for many people to the short comedies of the silent era.

2007 Televista edition

When Comedy Was King (1960), black & white, 81 minutes, not rated.

Televista, unknown 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: 11 September 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.

2007 Genius Entertainment edition

When Comedy Was King (1960), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with The Golden Age of Comedy (1957), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Genius Entertainment, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-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, $16.95.
DVD release date: 16 October 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print. It has been coupled with an earlier Youngson documentary on film comedy.

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 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)
Slapstick Masters (1917-1929)
Snooky the Chimp (1920-1921)
The Stan Laurel Collection (1923-1925)

Other silent era-related documentaries available on DVD home video:
Before Hollywood, There Was Fort Lee, N.J. (1964)
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 (2005)
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)
Clara Bow: Discovering the ‘It’ Girl (1999)
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 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)
30 Years of Fun (1963)
Unknown Chaplin (1983)
The Way to Murnau (2003)
Without Lying Down (2000)

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