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Shot in the
Excitement
(1914)

This short comedy stars Alice Howell and Al St. John, with Rube Miller and Josef Swickard.

Undercrank Productions
2019 DVD edition

The Alice Howell Collection (1914-1925), black & white, 217 minutes total, not rated, including Shot in the Excitement (1914), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated.

Undercrank Productions,
no catalog number, UPC 6-47213-97019-7.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R discs (two DVDs in the set); 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 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $24.98.
Release date: 5 March 2019.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 8 / additional content: 7 / overall: 8.

This DVD-R collection has been mastered from a 35mm preservation print, duplicated from a 35mm paper print, held by the Library of Congress.

The film is accompanied by a music score performed by Ben Model.

Although it is released on DVD, this is the best-looking home video edition of the film we have viewed.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
UNDERCRANK PRODUCTIONS through . . .

Flicker Alley
2014 Blu-ray Disc edition

The Mack Sennett Collection, Volume One (1909-1933), black & white, 1005 minutes total, not rated, including Shot in the Excitement (1914), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated.

Flicker Alley, FA0035,
UPC 6-17311-67879-0, ISBN 1-893967-87-5.
One single-sided, single-layered, Regions ABC Blu-ray Disc (three BDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at ? Mbps average video bit rate; Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard three-disc BD keepcase; $59.95.
Release date: 19 August 2014.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 5 / audio: 5 / additional content: 5 / overall: 5.

This Blu-ray Disc edition has been mastered from a good to very-good 16mm reduction print held by Richard M. Roberts.

The supplemental material includes selected audio commentary, outtakes and rushes, 1920 footage of the Sennett studio, a trailer for The Crossroads of New York (1922), newsreel footage, a complete 1939 radio appearance by Mack Sennett, television appearances including the Mack Sennett episode of This is Your Life, and a 28-page booklet featuring notes on the films.

While this is on a Blu-ray Disc edition, this is not a recommended home video disc for this film.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition has been discontinued
and is . . .