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The Caretaker’s
Daughter
(1925)
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This Hal Roach comedy stars Charley Chase and Katherine Grant, and features support from William J. Kelly, George Siegmann, Symona Boniface, James Parrott and James Finlayson.
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 Alpha Video
2009 DVD edition
Silent Comedy Classics (1913-1987), black & white, 207 minutes total, not rated, including The Caretakers Daughter (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 5941D, UPC 0-89218-59419-8.
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; 1 chapter stop; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 24 November 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition has been mastered from an analog videotape copy (probably VHS videotape) mastered from a 16mm reduction print, made worse by high disc compression to fit more than 200 minutes of content onto a single-sided DVD. The picture is coarsely rendered and occasionally looks horrible on a high-definition system.
The film is accompanied by synchronized sound effects and a music score performed on digital keyboards by Don Kinnier.
Not great but possibly the only home video edition available on DVD.
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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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