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The Chaplin
Collection

Volume 1
(1925-1952)

 

Contents: The Gold Rush (1925), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940) and Limelight (1952).

coverWarner Home Video
2003 DVD edition

The Chaplin Collection, Volume 1 (1925-1952), black & white, 410 minutes total, MPAA Rated G and not rated, including The Gold Rush (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Modern Times (1936), black & white, ? minutes, MPAA Rated G, The Great Dictator (1940), black & white, ? minutes, MPAA Rated G, and Limelight (1952), black & white, ? minutes, MPAA Rated G.

Warner Home Video, 37942,
UPC 0-85393-79422-4, unknown ISBN number.
Four single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Thai subtitles; chapter stops; and four single-sided, single-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Thai subtitles; chapter stops; four cardboards wraps with plastic DVD trays in cardboard slipcase; $79.95.
Release date: 1 July 2003.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD boxset from Warner Home Video was officially sanctioned by the Estate of Charles Chaplin. Of the four films in the boxset, only The Gold Rush harkens from the silent era.

Our notes on this edition of that film are located on our The Gold Rush on home video page.

 
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