Silent Era : Home Video Reviews

Silent Era Home Page > Home Video > Accidentally Preserved, Volume 4

Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett
and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved.

Accidentally
Preserved
Volume 4
(1920-1926)

Contents: Nonsense (1920), The Ninety and Nine (1922), Meet Father (1924), The Wages of Tin (1925), Tides of Passion (1925), A Man’s Size Pet (1926), Walter’s Paying Policy (1926) and ’Morning, Judge (1926).

This collection of short comedies and abridged dramas has been produced from 9.5 Pathéscope reduction prints held by USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Undercrank Productions
2016 DVD edition

Accidentally Preserved, Volume 4 (1920-1926), black & white, 121 minutes total, not rated, including Nonsense (1920), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, The Ninety and Nine (1922), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Meet Father (1924/1925), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, The Wages of Tin (1925), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Tides of Passion (1925), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, A Man’s Size Pet (1926), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, Walter’s Paying Policy (1926), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, and ’Morning, Judge (1926), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated.

Undercrank Productions, no catalog number, UPC 7-39189-94336-4.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.98.
Release date: 4 November 2016.
Country of origin: USA