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Silent Comedy
Classics Collection
Volume 1
(1913-1928)

Contents: The Speed Kings — Earl Cooper and Teddy Tetzlaft (1913), Out of Control (1917), Back to the Woods (1923), The ’Fraidy Cat (1924) and Half Back Hannah (1928).

Alpha Video
2013 DVD edition

Silent Comedy Classics Collection, Volume 1 (1913-1928), black & white, 55 minutes total, not rated, including The Speed Kings — Earl Cooper and Teddy Tetzlaft (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Out of Control (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Back to the Woods (1923), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The ’Fraidy Cat (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Half Back Hannah (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6924D, UPC 0-89218-69249-8.
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 subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 26 February 2013.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm 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 some of these films are available nowhere else on home video.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .