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American slapstick / Allday Entertainment ; Reelclassicdvd.
LIBRA DVD PN1995.9.C55 A4475336 2006 disc 1-3 + insert_
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Models (Persons)--Drama.
- Models (Persons).
- Female impersonators--Drama.
- Female impersonators.
- Auctioneers--Drama.
- Auctioneers.
- Memory disorders--Drama.
- Memory disorders.
- Alcoholics--Drama.
- Alcoholics.
- Acrobats--Drama.
- Acrobats.
- Police--Drama.
- Police.
- Genre:
- Comedy films.
- Drama.
- Fiction films.
- Short films.
- Silent films.
- Slapstick comedy films.
- Physical Description:
- 3 videodiscs (280 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 folded leaf ; 19 cm)
- Place of Publication:
- Chatsworth, CA : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [2006]
- Language Note:
- Silent films with English intertitles and musical accompaniment.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.
- Summary:
- Expect to find exploding cars, innocent bystanders smacked in the head with hammers, half-naked underwear models chased by cross-dressing villains, auctioneers crawling across airplane wings to retrieve false teeth, memory-impaired lovers, somnambulists, drunken reprobates, deranged acrobats, and the Keystone Kops.
- Contents:
- Disc one: Caught in the rain / Charlie Chaplin (1914, 14 min.) ; Laughing gas / Charlie Chaplin (1914, 11 min.) ; A submarine pirate / Syd Chaplin (1915, 27 min.) ; Cupid's rival / Billy West (1917, 28 min.) ; The bond / Charlie Chaplin (1918, 9 min.)
- Disc two: Golf / Larry Semon (1922, 27 min.) ; Lizzies of the field / Billy Bevan (1924, 14 min.) ; Heavy love / The Ton of Fun (1926, 20 min.) ; Uppercuts / Jack Duffy (1926, 11 min.) ; Beauty and the bump / Perry Murdock (1927, 16 min.) ; Reckless Rosie / Frances Lee (1929, 11 min.)
- Disc three: Luke's movie muddle / Harold Lloyd (1916, 10 min.) ; Pay your dues / Harold Lloyd (1919, 13 min.) ; The nonskid kid / Eddie Boland (1922, 11 min.) ; Sold at auction / Snub Pollard (1923, 22 min.) ; Smithy / Stan Laurel (1924, 14 min.) ; Forgotten sweeties / Charley Chase (1927, 21 min.).
- Participant:
- Harold Lloyd, Stan Laurel, Billy West, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Snub Pollard, Billy Bevan, Larry Semon.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Originally released as motion pictures between 1914 and 1929.
- Contains 17 silent comedy classics and archival rarities.
- Special features: Disc one: Audio commentary by film historian David Kalat on "A submarine pirate;" super-secret bonus short.
- OCLC:
- 75961442
- Publisher Number:
- 014381358124
- ADE3581DVD Image Entertainment
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