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Keystone Films
Volume 1
(1915-1916)

Contents: Dirty Work in a Laundry (1915) [1918 rerelease version entitled A Desperate Scoundrel], A Hash House Fraud (1915), Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance (1915) and Dollars and Sense (1916).

Sunrise Silents
2004 DVD edition

Keystone Films, Volume 1 (1915-1916), color-tinted black & white, 73 minutes total, not rated, including Dirty Work in a Laundry (1915) [1918 rerelease version entitled A Desperate Scoundrel], color-tinted black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Hash House Fraud (1915), color-tinted black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance (1915), color-tinted black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Dollars and Sense (1916), color-tinted black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Sunrise Silents,
KSF1-N (NTSC) or KSF1-P (PAL), no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC or PAL DVD-R disc; One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: October 2004.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection from Sunrise Silents includes four Mack Sennett-produced Keystone comedy films from the late Mutual through the early Triangle period.

The films have likely been transferred from 16mm reduction prints.

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