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Kid Boots
(1926)

This Paramount feature comedy, directed by Frank Tuttle, stars Eddie Cantor, Clara Bow, Billie Dove and Lawrence Gray.

Original Cast
2006 DVD edition

Kid Boots (1926), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated, with A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor (1924) black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, and A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic (1929), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated.

Original Cast, OC-6201, UPC 7-41117-62019-3.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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 5.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 18 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.99 (reduced to $14.98).
Release date: 2006
Country of origin: USA •

Ratings (1-10): video: 5 / audio: 5 / additional content: 6 / overall: 5.

This DVD edition has been mastered from a very-good 16mm reduction print. The video transfer is a little blasted out in its highlights, but the shadows detail is reasonably open and defined.

The film is accompanied by an original score written and performed on piano by Arthur Siegel. The music is a little out-of-sync with the film’s action.

The supplemental material includes two short films featuring Eddie Cantor: A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor (1924) is an early synchronized sound film produced with the DeForest Phonofilm system, and A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic (1929) is a later short sound film produced by Paramount and featuring Cantor, with cameos by Richard Dix, Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw.