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Accidentally
Preserved

Volume 1
(1920-1931)

 

Contents: The Water Plug (1920), Mechanical Doll (1922), Shoot Straight (1923), Cheer Up (1924), The Misfit (1924), Loose Change (1928), The Lost Laugh (1928), Wedding Slips (1928) and The House of Wonders (circa 1931).

This collection of mostly short comedies has been produced from 16mm reduction prints held by Ben Model.

coverUndercrank Productions
2013 DVD edition

Accidentally Preserved, Volume 1 (1920-1931), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 103 minutes total, not rated, including The Water Plug (1920), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Mechanical Doll (1922), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, Shoot Straight (1923), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Cheer Up (1924), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, The Misfit (1924), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Loose Change (1928), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, The Lost Laugh (1928), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, Wedding Slips (1928), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, and The House of Wonders (circa 1931), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated.

Undercrank Productions, no catalog number, UPC 8-86470-68544-8.
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 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 6 June 2013.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has been mastered from 16mm reduction prints struck predominantly in the 1930s and 1940s.

The films are accompanied by music scores performed by Ben Model.

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

Other silent era MAX FLEISCHER films available on home video.

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