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Billy Bevan
Comedies
(1921-1961)

Contents: Be Reasonable (1921), Gymnasium Jim (1922), Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies (1925), Circus Today (1926), The Divorce Dodger (1926) and Funny Manns “Circus Mann” (1961).

Looser Than Loose
201? DVD edition

Billy Bevan Comedies (1921-1961), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated, including Be Reasonable (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Gymnasium Jim (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Circus Today (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Divorce Dodger (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Funny Manns “Circus Mann” (1961), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Looser Than Loose Vintage Entertainment,
no catalog number, no UPC number.
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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.99.
Release date: 201?.
Country of origin: USA

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

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

While some of these films are available in other collections, this is our recommended home video edition of some of these films.

Note that some international customers have experienced long delays in the shipping of their orders and are being charged very high unannounced shipping costs.

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

Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

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