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Lost Comedy Classics
Volume 2
(1917-1919)

 

Contents: All Aboard! (1917), Step Lively (1917), Ask Father (1919), Bumping into Broadway (1919), Chop Suey and Co. (1919), Don’t Shove (1919) and Ring Up the Curtain (1919).

You have to wonder why Harold Lloyd isn’t mentioned in the title of this collection of Lloyd films.

coverAlpha Video
2013 DVD edition

Lost Comedy Classics, Volume 2 (1917-1919), black & white, 82 minutes total, not rated, including All Aboard! (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Step Lively (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Ask Father (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Bumping into Broadway (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Chop Suey and Co. (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Don’t Shove (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Ring Up the Curtain (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7236D, UPC 0-89218-72369-7.
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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $6.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 10 December 2013.
Country of origin: USA
This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm and/or 8mm reduction prints.

The films are likely accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting music sources.

We wouldn’t recommend this below-average disc but a couple of these films are available nowhere else on home video. And . . . were these films truly lost?

 
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Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

Other silent era HAROLD LLOYD films available on home video.

Other silent era BEBE DANIELS films available on home video.
 
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