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Famous
Comedy Legends
Volume 1
(1915-1947)

Contents: The Bank (1915), The Vagabond (1916), Easy Street (1917), The Goat (1921), The Blacksmith (1922), Bad Boy (1925), The General (1926), College (1927), The Dentist (1932), The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933), Disorder in the Court (1936), and Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947).

Falcon Picture Group
2002 DVD edition

Famous Comedy Legends, Volume 1 (1915-1947), black & white, 324 minutes total, not rated, including The Bank (1915), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, The Vagabond (1916), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Easy Street (1917), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, The Goat (1921), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, The Blacksmith (1922), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, Bad Boy (1925), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, The General (1926), color-toned black & white, 76 minutes, not rated, College (1927), black & white, 66 minutes, not rated, The Dentist (1932), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, Disorder in the Court (1936), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, and Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated.

Falcon Picture Group, 1009, UPC 8-22583-10099-7, ISBN 1-59171-009-X.
Three single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; three DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $24.99.
Release date: 1 July 2002.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 3 / audio: 3 / additional content: 3 / overall: 3.

This DVD boxset is full of low-quality video transfers of short and feature-length films. At the time of its release, the majority of the titles were previously available from other budget disc producers of similar low-quality. At the time of its release, this boxset only premiered Bad Boy (1925) on home video and in such a horrible presentation as to not even count.

While the temptation is to get three discs for a low price, the quality of prints used for the video transfers are commensurately low.

For our comparative reviews of the silent films in this boxset, see our College on home video and The General on home video pages.

All of these films are available in higher-quality home video editions elsewhere. Not recommended and it’s out-of-print now, anyway. No loss.

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