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Harold Lloyd
One-Reel Comedy Classics
(1918-1919)

Contents: The City Slicker (1918), The Non Stop Kid (1918), Two Gun Gussie (1918), Captain Kidd’s Kids (1919), I’m On My Way (1919), Just Neighbors (1919), Never Touched Me (1919) and Spring Fever (1919).

Alpha Video
2021 DVD edition

Harold Lloyd One-Reel Comedy Classics (1918-1919), black & white, 88 minutes total, not rated, including The City Slicker (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Non Stop Kid (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Two Gun Gussie (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Captain Kidd’s Kids (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, I’m On My Way (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Just Neighbors (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Never Touched Me (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Spring Fever (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8390D, UPC 0-89218-83909-1.
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; $8.98.
Release date: 12 January 2021.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has been mastered from VHS videotape duplicates of a number of 16mm and 8mm reduction prints. It, then, should be no surprise that all of these films look their worst here on home video.

The films are accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting jazz music recordings.

For our comparative reviews of some of these films, see our Captain Kidd’s Kids on home video, The City Slicker on home video, Just Neighbors on home video, The Non Stop Kid on home video and Two Gun Gussie on home video pages.

This is not a recommended home video edition of these films, however, three shorts do not appear on home video elsewhere (yet).

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