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Silent Slapstick
Comedy Parade
Volume 4
(1916-1927)

Contents: Everett True Breaks into the Movies (1916), Hunting in 1950 (1926), Hop Along (1926), A One-Mama Man (1927) and With Love and Hisses (1927).

Alpha Video
2025 DVD edition

Silent Slapstick Comedy Parade, Volume 4 (1916-1927), black & white, 86 minutes total, not rated, including Everett True Breaks into the Movies (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Hunting in 1950 (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Hop Along (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A One-Mama Man (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and With Love and Hisses (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8650D, UPC 0-89218-86509-0.
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; $8.98.
Release date: 21 January 2025.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm or 8mm reduction prints.

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

Probably not a great presentation but, for some of these films, this is the only home video edition of the film we know of.

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