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He Did and
He Didn’t
(1916)
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This Keystone comedy stars Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.
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 Mackinac Media
2005 DVD edition
The Forgotten Films of Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle (1913-1932), black & white and color-toned black & white, 625 minutes total, not rated, including He Did and He Didn’t (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Mackinac Media, MM0006D, UPC 6-89076-96352-7.
Four single-sided, dual-layered?, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in windowboxed 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; four-disc DVD keepcase; $49.95.
Release date: 24 May 2005.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The presentation features newly-created music scores by Philip Carli, David Drazin, Ben Model, The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Rodney Sauer and Donald Sosin.
As of 2008, this four-disc collection is out-of-print and can only be found as a used item.
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 Reelclassicdvd.com
2004 DVD edition
A Festival of Silent Comedy, Volume 2 (1916-1926), black & white, 93 minutes total, not rated, including He Did and He Didn’t (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Reelclassicdvd.com, no catalog number, UPC 7-62184-87622-1.
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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; no chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $20.00.
Release date: 2004.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is presented with a music score performed by Ben Model.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from Reelclassicdvd.com through . . .
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Other silent era ROSCOE ARBUCKLE films available on home video.
Other silent era MABEL NORMAND films available on home video.
Other KEYSTONE comedy films available on home video.
Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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Roscoe Arbuckle filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List
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