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Will Rogers
Silent Comedy Classics
(1922-1924)

Contents: The Ropin’ Fool (1922), The Cowboy Sheik (1924) and Big Moments from Little Moments (1924).

Alpha Video
2024 DVD edition

Will Rogers: Silent Comedy Classics (1922-1924), black & white, 67 minutes total, not rated, including The Ropin’ Fool (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Cowboy Sheik (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Big Moments from Little Moments (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8577D, UPC 0-89218-85779-8.
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; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $8.98.
Release date: 9 January 2024.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from 16mm or 8mm reduction prints of the films.

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

Probably not a great presentation but this is the only home video edition of the film we know of.

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

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