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American Slapstick
Volume 2
(1915-1937)

Contents: Caught in a Park (1915), A Hash House Fraud (1915), Gussle’s Wayward Path (1915), Luke Joins the Navy (1916), Bliss (1917), By the Sad Sea Waves (1917), The Hobo (1917), Hey There! (1918), Don’t Shove! (1919), Looking for Trouble (1919), Charley Out West (1919), The Dippy Dentist (1920), Cinderella Cinders (1920), A Fresh Start (1920), Dodge Your Debts (1921), Whirl o’ the West (1921), At Your Service (1921), Be Reasonable (1921), Shiver and Shake (1922), Post No Bills (1923), Call the Wagon (1923), Oh! Shoot (1923), Jonah Jones (1924), Kid Speed (1924), Charley’s Aunt (1925), Hold Still (1926), Breezing Along (1927), Faro Nell (1929), Hollywood Runaround (1932) and Playboy Number One (1937).

All Day Entertainment
2008 DVD edition

American Slapstick, Volume 2 (1915-1937), black & white, 440 minutes total, not rated, including Caught in a Park (1915), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, A Hash House Fraud (1915), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Gussle’s Wayward Path (1915), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, Luke Joins the Navy (1916), black & white, 4 minutes, not rated, Bliss (1917), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, By the Sad Sea Waves (1917), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, The Hobo (1917), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Hey There! (1918), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Don’t Shove! (1919), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Looking for Trouble (1919), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, Charley Out West (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Dippy Dentist (1920), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, Cinderella Cinders (1920), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, A Fresh Start (1920), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, Dodge Your Debts (1921), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Whirl o’ the West (1921), black & white, 5 minutes, not rated, At Your Service (1921), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, Be Reasonable (1921), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, Shiver and Shake (1922), black & white, 4 minutes, not rated, Post No Bills (1923), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Call the Wagon (1923), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, Oh! Shoot (1923) [excerpt], black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Jonah Jones (1924), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, Kid Speed (1924), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, Charley’s Aunt (1925), black & white, 71 minutes, not rated, Hold Still (1926), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Breezing Along (1927), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, Faro Nell (1929), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, Hollywood Runaround (1932), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, and Playboy Number One (1937), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated.

All Day Entertainment, distributed by Facets Video,
DV96585, UPC 7-36899-11822-8, ISBN 1-56580-777-4.
Three single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame and windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 6.4 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; 16-page insert booklet; standard three-disc DVD keepcase; $39.99.
Release date: 22 July 2008.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 7 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.

This DVD collection has been mastered from 35mm prints, and 16mm and 8mm reduction prints of uneven quality ranging from fair to very-good. Systems capable of progressive scan upscaling may not be entirely successful at eliminating evidence of NTSC picture interlacing.

The films feature musical accompaniment composed, arranged and performed by Bernie Anderson, Ray Brubacher, Blaine Gale, Ben Model, Andrew Earle Simpson, Ethan Uslan and Jay Warren.

Supplementary material includes a 16-page insert booklet with information by Steve Massa about the performers represented in the collection.

For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films in the collection, see our Charley’s Aunt on home video, Cinderella Cinders on home video, Don’t Shove! on home video, A Hash House Fraud on home video and The Hobo on home video pages.

If you can still find it, this collection is recommended but be prepared for some poor source materials.

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