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Rare Silent
Collection #1
(1915-1917)

Contents: Auntie’s Portrait (1915), Nothing to Wear (1917) and Her Dressmaker’s Bills (1917).

This collection contains two short comedies starring Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew, and a short drama starring Pearl White.

Fatkat Enterprises
201? DVD edition

Rare Silent Collection #1 (1915-1917), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated, including Auntie’s Portrait (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Nothing to Wear (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Her Dressmaker’s Bills (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Fatkat Enterprises, no catalog number, UPC 6-35189-67000-5.
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; slimline CD jewelcase; $5.00.
Release date: 201?.
Country of origin: USA

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

The films are likely accompanied by soundtracks compiled from music library MIDI files processed on a synthesizer.

The sale of this edition benefits the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum. This producer from Stayton, Oregon, has released DVD-R editions under the company names Fatkat Enterprises and Rare Silent Films.

Sight unseen, this is our recommended home video edition of these films.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
FATKAT ENTERPRISES through . . .

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

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

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