Cartoon Rarities of the 1920s (1917-1929), black & white, 79 minutes total, not rated,
including Tanks (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Four Musicians of Bremen (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Alice Rattled by Rats (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Ko-Ko in Toyland (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, My Old Kentucky Home (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Red Hot Rails (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Sweet Adeline (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Hunt (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Knighthood (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Mechanical Cow (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, One Man Dog (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Romeeow (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and A Lad and His Lamp (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, ALP 5681D, UPC 0-89218-56819-9
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0NTSC DVD disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 13 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase, $7.98.
Release date: 28 October 2008.
Country of origin: USA
This budget DVD collection has been mastered from a series of good to very-good 16mm reduction prints, which are soft of image details but also hold some light greytones in most of the brightest picture areas. Most of the framing is too tight so that some picture information is lost on all sides, with more lost to the left and bottom of the picture. The roughest print of the silent era cartoons is that for A Close Call (1929).
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