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Chaplin
and His Impersonators
(1916-1922)

Contents: The Count (1916), Heaven Will Protect a Woiking Goil (1916) and Don’t Be Foolish (1922).

Of course, The Count (1916) features Charles Chaplin, but the attraction of this collection will be its inclusion of the Vogue comedy Heaven Will Protect a Woiking Goil (1916) featuring Priscilla Dean and Paddy McGuire, and Don’t Be Foolish (1922) directed and starring Billy West, with Frank Hayes and Tom Murray.

Alpha Video
2011 DVD edition

Chaplin and His Impersonators (1916-1922), black & white, 55 minutes total, not rated, including The Count (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Heaven Will Protect a Woiking Goil (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Don’t Be Foolish (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6496D, UPC 0-89218-64969-0.
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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 31 January 2011.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm and/or 8mm reduction prints.

We don’t recommend this collection for the Chaplin film included, as there are better presentations on DVD available. To our knowledge, the other two films premiere on DVD home video on this disc.

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