 All Day Entertainment
2009 DVD edition
Becoming Charley Chase (1915-1926), black & white and color-toned black & white, 460 minutes total, not rated, including He Wouldn’t Stay Down (1915), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, Love in Armor (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Love, Loot and Crash (1915), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Peanuts and Bullets (1915), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, The Rent Jumpers (1915), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Settled at the Seaside (1915), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, A Versatile Villain (1915), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, The Flirts (1919), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, A Rolling Stone (1919), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, Married to Order (1920), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, The Dumb Bell (1922), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, Courtship of Miles Sandwich (1923), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, Dear Ol’ Pal (1923), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Jus’ Passin’ Through (1923), black & white, 27 minutes, not rated, Accidental Accidents (1924) [surviving fragment], black & white, 2 minutes, not rated, At First Sight (1924), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Don’t Forget (1924) [surviving fragment], black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, The ’Fraidy Cat (1924), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Hard Knocks (1924), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Jeffries, Jr. (1924), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Just a Minute (1924), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, One of the Family (1924), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Outdoor Pajamas (1924), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, The Poor Fish (1924), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Powder and Smoke! (1924), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Publicity Pays (1924), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Seeing Nellie Home (1924) [surviving footage], black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Sittin’ Pretty (1924), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Stolen Goods (1924), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, A Ten Minute Egg (1924), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Too Many Mammas (1924), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, Young Oldfield (1924), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Bad Boy (1925), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, Big Red Ridinghood (1925), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Fighting Fluid (1925), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Hello Baby! (1925), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Is Marriage the Bunk? (1925), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Looking for Sally (1925), color-toned black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, No Father to Guide Him (1925), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, The Rat’s Knuckles (1925), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, Should Husbands Be Watched? (1925), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Soft Pedal (1926), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated.
All Day Entertainment, distributed by VCI Entertainment,
8562, UPC 0-89859-85622-8, ISBN 1-55739-587-X.
Four single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame and windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 7.2 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard four-disc DVD keepcase; $39.99.
Release date: 28 July 2009.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 5 / audio: 8 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.
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This DVD collection of Charley Chase films is an excellent companion to the two Chase collections from Kino International released in 2004 and 2005. The discs have been mastered from a combination of 35mm, 16mm and 8mm source prints, which are occasionally poor to generally very-good in quality, with a few exceptions at both extremes. One film (Just a Minute) shows analog videotape mistracking throughout the picture.
The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed by Ben Model, Andrew Earle Simpson, Maurice Saylor and Phil Carluzzo of the Snark Ensemble, Ben Redwine of the Redwine Jazz Band and the West End Jazz Band.
Supplementary material includes audio commentary by Steve Massa, Richard M. Roberts, Bruce Lawton, Ben Model, Robert Arkus and Yair Solan; surviving footage of Accidental Accidents (1924); an interview with Charley’s daughter, June Chase Hargis (15 minutes); featurette “The Evolution of a Gag,” with collection producer David Kalat (8 minutes); featurette “The Sounds of Silence,” with members of the Snark Ensemble (25 minutes); and the documentary The Parrott Chase (2009), including interviews with biographer Brian Anthony, archivist Ulrich Ruedel, historians Rob Farr, Bruce Lawton, Richard M. Roberts, Chris Seguin, Yair Solan and Brent Walker (45 minutes).
For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films in this collection, see our Bad Boy on home video, Courtship of Miles Sandwich on home video, Looking for Sally on home video, Married to Order on home video, Peanuts and Bullets on home video, The Poor Fish on home video, The Rent Jumpers on home video and Young Oldfield on home video pages.
Highly recommended but hard-to-find these days, even as a used item.
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