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Keystone Kops
Festival /
Buster Keaton
Festival
(1913-1922)

Contents: Bangville Police (1913), Love, Speed and Thrills (1915), Her Painted Hero (1915), Wife and Auto Trouble (1916), The Boat (1921), The Blacksmith (1922), Day Dreams (1922) and The Paleface (1922).

Dollar Entertainment
2004 DVD edition

Keystone Kops Festival (1913-1916) and Buster Keaton Festival (1921-1922), black & white, 134 minutes total, not rated, including Bangville Police (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Love, Speed and Thrills (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Her Painted Hero (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Wife and Auto Trouble (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Boat (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Blacksmith (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Day Dreams (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Paleface (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Dollar Entertainment, no catalog number, UPC 8-26831-20060-6.
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 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; unknown suggested retail price.
Release date: 2004
Country of origin: USA

This ultra-cheap DVD collection has likely been mastered from 16mm reduction prints.

The films are likely accompanied by soundtracks of preexisting music recordings

USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.

Canada: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.ca. Your purchase supports Silent Era.

Mill Creek Entertainment
2005 DVD edition

Mill Creek Entertainment, no catalog number, UPC 8-26831-20060-6.
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 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; unknown suggested retail price.
Release date: 22 March 2005
Country of origin: USA

This cheapy DVD collection has been mastered from 16mm reduction prints and is a direct reissue of the Dollar Entertainment edition noted above — right down to the duplicated UPC number. I guess that the Dollar Entertainment company name sounded a little too cheap for the marketplace.

The films are likely accompanied by soundtracks of preexisting music recordings

USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.