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Roach
Volume 1
(1922-1926)

Contents: Friday the 13th (1922), The Golf Bug (1922), Harvest Hands (1922), The Sleuth (1922), Take the Next Car (1922), Join the Circus (1923), Take the Air (1923), Tight Shoes (1923), The Uncovered Wagon (1923), At First Sight (1924), Get Busy (1924), Jeffries, Jr. (1924), Outdoor Pajamas (1924), Powder and Smoke! (1924), Publicity Pays (1924), A Ten-Minute Egg (1924), Young Oldfield (1924), Are Parents Pickles? (1925), Hello Baby! (1925), The Rat’s Knuckles (1925), Should Husbands Be Watched? (1925), Between Meals (1926), Don’t Butt In! (1926), Mama Behave (1926), Mighty Like a Moose (1926) and Soft Pedal (1926).

Looser Than Loose
201? DVD edition

Roach, Volume 1 (1922-1926), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated, including Friday the 13th (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Golf Bug (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Harvest Hands (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Sleuth (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Take the Next Car (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Join the Circus (1923), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Take the Air (1923), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Tight Shoes (1923), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Uncovered Wagon (1923), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, At First Sight (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Get Busy (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Jeffries, Jr. (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Outdoor Pajamas (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Powder and Smoke! (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Publicity Pays (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Ten-Minute Egg (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Young Oldfield (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Are Parents Pickles? (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Hello Baby! (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Rat’s Knuckles (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Should Husbands Be Watched? (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Between Meals (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Don’t Butt In! (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Mama Behave (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Mighty Like a Moose (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Soft Pedal (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Looser Than Loose Vintage Entertainment, no catalog number, no UPC number.
Four single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R discs; 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 four-disc DVD keepcase; $29.99.
Release date: 201?.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm and/or 9.5mm and/or 8mm reduction prints and/or videotapes.

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

For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films in this collection, see our At First Sight on home video, Mighty Like a Moose on home video and Young Oldfield on home video pages.

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 . . .