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Splash Yourself
(1927)

This Christie comedy stars Bobby Vernon as a Swedish immigrant to America who becomes a plumber’s assistant. As is expected, Bobby soon makes a shambles of a rich client’s home.

Unknown Video
2004 DVD edition

The Primitive Lover (1922), black & white, 71 minutes, not rated, with Splash Yourself (1927), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated.

Unknown Video, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
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 3.6 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; no chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $18.95.
Release date: 22 November 2004.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 5 / additional content: 6 / overall: 6.

This DVD-R edition of Splash Yourself has been mastered from a very-good 16mm reduction rerelease print from Hollywood Film Enterprises. The full-frame video transfer reproduces the source material well, but there’s a limit to the picture detail in an older 16mm print. The disc master shows some compression artifacts, but it’s nothing to get distraught over.

The presentation features musical accompaniment performed on an electric organ by Bob Vaughn.

This OK edition is collectable until a better home video edition is produced.

UNKNOWN VIDEO has discontinued business and this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is . . .