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Tell ’em Nothing
(1926)

This Charley Chase comedy short also features Vivien Oakland and Gertrude Astor. Charley is a divorce lawyer who attracts many would-be divorcees but soon must convince his own wife not to divorce him.

Falcon Picture Group
2002 DVD edition

Famous Comedy Legends, Volume 2 (1916-1949), black & white, 328 minutes total, not rated, including Tell ’em Nothing (1926), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated.

Falcon Picture Group, 1010,
UPC 8-22583-10109-3, ISBN 1-59171-010-3.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (three DVDs in the set); 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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; three standard DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $24.99.
Release date: 1 July 2002.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 3 / additional content: 3 / overall: 3.

This DVD edition has been mastered from a passable analog video transfer of a 16mm Kodak Cinegraph reduction print.

The film is accompanied by a vintage jazzy soundtrack lifted from another film print.

To our knowledge, Tell ’em Nothing is not available elsewhere in a higher-quality home video edition. Not recommended but whaddya gonna do? This is the only home video edition available . . . and it’s out-of-print.

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