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The Mack Sennett
Collection
Volume One
(1909-1933)

Contents: The Curtain Pole (1909), The Manicure Lady (1911), A Dash Through the Clouds (1912), The Water Nymph (1912), A Grocery Clerk’s Romance (1912), On His Wedding Day (1913), Bangville Police (1913), A Fishy Affair (1913), The Speed Kings — Earl Cooper and Teddy Tetzlaft (1913), A Thief Catcher (1914), The Great Toe Mystery (1914), Recreation (1914), Shot in the Excitement (1914), The Noise of Bombs (1914), Ambrose’s First Falsehood (1914), A Bird’s a Bird (1915), Gussle’s Day of Rest (1915), Do-Re-Mi-Boom! (1915), A Lover’s Lost Control (1915), A Submarine Pirate (1915), Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916), His Bitter Pill (1916), Madcap Ambrose (1916), Teddy at the Throttle (1917), Her Torpedoed Love (1917), A Clever Dummy (1917), Hearts and Flowers (1919), Down on the Farm (1920), Don’t Weaken (1920), Gymnasium Jim (1922), The Extra Girl (1923), The Dare-Devil (1923), Black Oxfords (1924), Galloping Bungalows (1924), His Marriage Wow (1925), Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies (1925), A Rainy Knight (1925), Saturday Afternoon (1926), A Sea Dog’s Tale (1926), Fiddlesticks (1926), Hoboken to Hollywood (1926), Ice Cold Cocos (1926), Broke in China (1927), The Pride of Pikeville (1927), Run, Girl, Run (1928), Taxi for Two (1928), The Bluffer (1930), The Dentist (1932), Don’t Play Bridge With Your Wife (1933) and The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933).

Flicker Alley
2014 Blu-ray Disc edition

The Mack Sennett Collection, Volume One (1909-1933), black & white, 1005 minutes total, not rated, including The Curtain Pole (1909), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, The Manicure Lady (1911), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, A Dash Through the Clouds (1912), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, The Water Nymph (1912), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, A Grocery Clerk’s Romance (1912), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, On His Wedding Day (1913), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Bangville Police (1913), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, A Fishy Affair (1913), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, The Speed Kings — Earl Cooper and Teddy Tetzlaft (1913), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, A Thief Catcher (1914), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, The Great Toe Mystery (1914), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Recreation (1914), black & white, 5 minutes, not rated, Shot in the Excitement (1914), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, The Noise of Bombs (1914), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Ambrose’s First Falsehood (1914), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, A Bird’s a Bird (1915), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Gussle’s Day of Rest (1915), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Do-Re-Mi-Boom! (1915), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, A Lover’s Lost Control (1915), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, A Submarine Pirate (1915), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916), black & white, 31 minutes, not rated, His Bitter Pill (1916), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Madcap Ambrose (1916), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Teddy at the Throttle (1917), black & white, 27 minutes, not rated, Her Torpedoed Love (1917), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, A Clever Dummy (1917), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, Hearts and Flowers (1919), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Down on the Farm (1920), black & white, 52 minutes, not rated, Don’t Weaken (1920), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Gymnasium Jim (1922), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, The Extra Girl (1923), black & white, 73 minutes, not rated, The Dare-Devil (1923), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Black Oxfords (1924), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Galloping Bungalows (1924), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, His Marriage Wow (1925), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies (1925), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, A Rainy Knight (1925), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Saturday Afternoon (1926), black & white, 27 minutes, not rated, A Sea Dog’s Tale (1926), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Fiddlesticks (1926), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Hoboken to Hollywood (1926), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Ice Cold Cocos (1926), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, Broke in China (1927), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, The Pride of Pikeville (1927), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Run, Girl, Run (1928), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Taxi for Two (1928), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, The Bluffer (1930), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, The Dentist (1932), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Don’t Play Bridge With Your Wife (1933), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, and The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated.

Flicker Alley, FA0035, UPC 6-17311-67879-0, ISBN 1-893967-87-5.
Three single-sided, single-layered, Regions ABC Blu-ray Discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) progressive scan AVC (MPEG-4) format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard three-disc BD keepcase; $59.95.
Release date: 19 August 2014.
Country of origin: USA

This Blu-ray Disc collection of Mack Sennett comedies has been mastered from 35mm prints and 16mm reduction prints.

The supplemental material includes selected audio commentary, outtakes and rushes, 1920 footage of the Sennett studio, a trailer for The Crossroads of New York (1922), newsreel footage, a complete 1939 radio appearance by Mack Sennett, television appearances including the Mack Sennett episode of This is Your Life, and a 28-page booklet featuring notes on the films.

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