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The Chaplin
Collection

Volume 1
(1925-1952)

 

Contents: The Gold Rush (1925), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940) and Limelight (1952).

coverWarner Home Video
2003 DVD edition

The Chaplin Collection, Volume 1 (1925-1952), black & white, 410 minutes total, MPAA Rated G and not rated, including The Gold Rush (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Modern Times (1936), black & white, ? minutes, MPAA Rated G, The Great Dictator (1940), black & white, ? minutes, MPAA Rated G, and Limelight (1952), black & white, ? minutes, MPAA Rated G.

Warner Home Video, 37942,
UPC 0-85393-79422-4, unknown ISBN number.
Four single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 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 ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 5.1 surround sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate, and Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, optional English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Thai subtitles; chapter stops; and four single-sided, single-layered, Region 1 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 ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 5.1 surround sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate, and Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate;, English language intertitles, optional English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Thai subtitles; chapter stops; four cardboards wraps with plastic DVD trays in cardboard slipcase; $79.95.
Release date: 1 July 2003.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD boxset from Warner Home Video was officially sanctioned by the Estate of Charles Chaplin. Of the four films in the boxset, only The Gold Rush harkens from the silent era.

For our comparative reviews of the silent film in this boxset, see our The Gold Rush on home video page.

 
This Region 0 NTSC DVD boxset has been discontinued
and is . . .
Other silent era CHARLES CHAPLIN films available on home video.

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

Charles Chaplin filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List
 
 
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