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Silent Comedy
Classics Collection
Volume 4
(1923-1928)

Contents: Skylarking (1923), Reno or Bust (1924), Grandma’s Child (1925), Mine Your Business! (1927) and Fooling Casper (1928).

Alpha Video
2022 DVD edition

Silent Comedy Classics Collection, Volume 4 (1923-1928), black & white, 102 minutes total, not rated, including Skylarking (1923), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Reno or Bust (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Grandma’s Child (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Mine Your Business! (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Fooling Casper (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8481D, UPC 0-89218-84819-2.
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: 15 March 2022.
Country of origin: USA

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

The films are likely accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting music sources.

We wouldn’t recommend this below-average disc but some of these films are available nowhere else on home video.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .