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His Luckless
Love

(1915)

 

This rare Tom Kennedy (who?) comedy from the Keystone studio features Tom as a husband with a roving eye for the maid who can’t stay out of trouble with his wife or the maid’s boyfriend.

coverGrapevine Video
2005 DVD edition

Keystone Comedies, Volume 1 (1915-1917), black & white, 101 minutes total, not rated,
including His Luckless Love (1915), sepia-toned black & white, 12 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10092-5.
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, 224 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $12.95.
Release date: 2005.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 3 / additional content: 6 / overall: 4.

This DVD-R edition from Grapevine Video has been transferred from a good 16mm reduction print, which is soft of image detail, with contrasty greytones, blasted-out highlights, some speckling and dust, and exposure fluctuations. The video transfer is adequate on standard equipment, and rougher going on high-definition systems, but it remains watchable when the print deficiencies are excused.

The film is accompanied by an electric organ score that may not be customized to the film.

 
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coverGrapevine Video
2002 DVD edition

Eyes of the Mummy (1918), color-toned black & white, 58 minutes, not rated, with His Luckless Love (1915), sepia-toned black & white, 12 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
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, 224 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, no chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 2002.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 3 / additional content: 6 / overall: 4.

This DVD-R edition from Grapevine Video has been transferred from a good 16mm reduction print, which is soft of image detail, with contrasty greytones, blasted-out highlights, some speckling and dust, and exposure fluctuations. The video transfer is adequate on standard equipment, and rougher going on high-definition systems, but it remains watchable when the print deficiencies are excused.

The film is accompanied by an electric organ score that may not be customized to the film.

 
This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
Other KEYSTONE comedy films available on home video.

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

 
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