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The
Silent Comedy
Mafia
Volume 2
(19??-19??)
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Unknown Video announced this collection of short comedy films featuring Lupino Lane, Billy West and other comedians and shortly thereafter discontinued business. We suspect that the collection was never released.
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 Unknown Video
2009 DVD edition
The Silent Comedy Mafia, Volume 2 (19??-19??), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated.
Unknown 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) 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; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R collection was to have been mastered from fine-grain 16mm reduction prints, mostly from the Blackhawk Films collection held by Film Preservation Associates.
The films may have been planned to be accompanied by music scores performed by Frederick Hodges.
Announced close to the time that Unknown Video discontinued active sales from their Internet website, we do not know whether this DVD collection was actually released. If you own a copy of this disc please consider loaning it to us to review for documentation purposes. We pay postage both ways.
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