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Hal Roach Presents
Early Pathé
Comedies

(1920-1926)

 

Contents: Merely a Maid (1920), Straight Crook (1921), Years to Come (1922), Be Honest! (1923), Tight Shoes (1923), At First Sight (1924), The Bouncer (1925), Tell It to a Policeman (1925), 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926) and What’s the World Coming To? (1926).

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2016 DVD edition

Hal Roach Presents Early Pathé Comedies (1920-1926), black & white, 120 minutes total, not rated, including Merely a Maid (1920), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Straight Crook (1921), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Years to Come (1922), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Be Honest! (1923), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Tight Shoes (1923), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, At First Sight (1924), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, The Bouncer (1925), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, Tell It to a Policeman (1925), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, and What’s the World Coming To? (1926), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7821D, UPC 0-89218-78219-9.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 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 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 10 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 19 July 2016.
Country of origin: USA

This budget DVD-R collection has been mastered from a range of reduction prints.

The films are accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting recordings.

We wouldn’t recommend this below-average disc but a few of the films are available nowhere else on home video. However, the low quality of many of the source prints can make this DVD tough going.

 
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Other silent era CHARLEY CHASE films available on home video.

Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

 
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