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The Best Arbuckle/Keaton Collection
(1917-1920)

Contents: The Butcher Boy (1917), Coney Island (1917), His Wedding Night (1917), Oh, Doctor! (1917), The Rough House (1917), The Bellboy (1918), Good Night, Nurse! (1918), Moonshine (1918), Out West (1918), Back Stage (1919), The Hayseed (1919) and The Garage (1920).

Flicker Alley
2015 DVD edition

The Best Arbuckle/Keaton Collection, Volume One (1917-1920), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 163 minutes total, not rated, including The Butcher Boy (1917), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Coney Island (1917), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, His Wedding Night (1917), color-tinted black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, Oh, Doctor! (1917), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The Rough House (1917), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, The Bellboy (1918), black & white, 26 minutes, not rated, Moonshine (1918) [surviving footage], black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Out West (1918), color-tinted black & white, 21 minutes, not rated.

Flicker Alley, distributed by MovieZyng,
FA-MD3-007, UPC 8-89290-09098-0.
One single-sided, dual-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 subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: 18 March 2015.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD+R collection has been mastered from very-good to excellent quality 35mm source prints. This manufactured-on-demand edition replaces the 2002 Image edition noted below and should be of identical quality.

For some enthusiasts, the main attraction of this collection will be the piano scores performed by Neil Brand and others, which offered an alternative to The Alloy Orchestra scores on the similarly programmed Kino editions.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD+R edition is available directly from FLICKER ALLEY through . . .

Flicker Alley
2015 DVD edition

The Best Arbuckle/Keaton Collection, Volume Two (1917-1920), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 85 minutes total, not rated, including Good Night, Nurse! (1918), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Back Stage (1919), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, The Hayseed (1919), color-tinted black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, and The Garage (1920), color-tinted black & white, 22 minutes, not rated.

Flicker Alley, distributed by MovieZyng,
FA-MD3-008, UPC 8-89290-09101-7.
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 subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: 18 March 2015.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has been mastered from very-good to excellent quality 35mm source prints. This manufactured-on-demand edition replaces the 2002 Image edition noted below and should be of identical quality.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from FLICKER ALLEY through . . .

Film Preservation Associates
2002 DVD edition

The Best Arbuckle/Keaton Collection (1917-1920), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 248 minutes total, not rated, including The Butcher Boy (1917), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Coney Island (1917), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, His Wedding Night (1917), color-tinted black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, Oh, Doctor! (1917), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The Rough House (1917), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, The Bellboy (1918), black & white, 26 minutes, not rated, Good Night, Nurse! (1918), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Moonshine (1918) [surviving footage], black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Out West (1918), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Back Stage (1919), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, The Hayseed (1919), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, and The Garage (1920), color-tinted black & white, 22 minutes, not rated.

Film Preservation Associates, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID1854DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-18542-3.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs; 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 6.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 12 chapter stops; insert booklet; double-wide two-disc DVD keepcase; $24.99.
Release date: 22 October 2002.
Country of origin: USA •

Ratings (1-10): video: 6 / audio: 7 / additional content: 0 / overall: 6.

On its 2002 release, this DVD collection prepared by Lobster Films, Paris, and Film Preservation Associates seemed redundant in the wake of Kino International’s 2001 two-volume releases of short films featuring both Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. The differences in content here being the inclusion of His Wedding Night (1917) and Oh, Doctor! (1917) compared to the combined ten-film program of the Kino editions.

The films are presented from material provided by FPA France (Lobster Films collection), Cinémathèque de Toulouse, Národni Filmovy Archiv, Cineteca Nazionale and Film Preservation Associates.

For some enthusiasts, the main attraction of this collection were the music scores performed by Neil Brand, Robert Israel, Brian Bennison and Eric Beheim, which offered an alternative to The Alloy Orchestra scores on the Kino editions.

This edition is now out-of-print; it has been replaced by the two split Flicker Alley editions noted above.

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