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Charlie Chaplin
Short Comedy Classics
(1915-1996)

Contents: His New Job (1915), A Night Out (1915), The Champion (1915), In the Park (1915), A Jitney Elopement (1915), The Tramp (1915), By the Sea (1915), Work (1915), A Woman (1915), The Bank (1915), His Regeneration (1915), Shanghaied (1915), A Night in the Show (1915), Carmen (1916), Police! (1916), The Count (1916), The Vagabond (1916), The Fireman (1916), Behind the Screen (1916), One A.M. (1916), The Pawnshop (1916), The Floorwalker (1916) and The Rink (1916), The Immigrant (1917), The Adventurer (1917), The Cure (1917), Easy Street (1917), Triple Trouble (1918), and Chaplin’s Goliath (1996).

Film Preservation Associates
2003 DVD edition

Charlie Chaplin: Short Comedy Classics (1915-1996), black & white, 749 minutes total, not rated, including Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Volume 1 (1915), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 136 minutes total, not rated, Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Volume 2 (1915), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 135 minutes total, not rated, Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies Volume 3 (1915-1918), black & white and color-toned black & white, 131 minutes total, not rated, The Chaplin Mutuals, Volume 1 (1917), black & white, 197 minutes total, not rated, The Chaplin Mutuals, Volume 2 (1916), black & white, 100 minutes total, not rated, The Chaplin Mutuals, Volume 3 (1916), black & white, 100 minutes total, not rated, and Chaplin’s Goliath (1996), color and black & white, 52 minutes, not rated.

Film Preservation Associates, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID0457DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-04572-7.
Seven single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame and windowboxed 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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; seven standard DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $99.99.
Release date: 8 July 2003.
Country of origin: USA