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Sennett Classics
Volume 1
(1911-1928)

Contents: The Manicure Lady (1911), A Small Town Bully [The Little Teacher] (1915), Gymnasium Jim (1922) and Run, Girl, Run (1928).

Alpha Video
2012 DVD edition

Sennett Classics, Volume 1 (1911-1928), black & white, 76 minutes total, not rated, including The Manicure Lady (1911), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, A Small Town Bully [The Little Teacher] (1915), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Gymnasium Jim (1922), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, and Run, Girl, Run (1928), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6740D, UPC 0-89218-67409-8.
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 5.8 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 4 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 13 March 2012.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 3 / audio: 3 / additional content: 0 / overall: 3.

This DVD-R collection of Mack Sennett comedies has been mastered from 8mm and 16mm reduction prints that range in visual quality from fair to good.

Gymnasium Jim (1922) has been mastered form a fair 16mm reduction print that is a bit grey in highlights. Dust, speckling, small emulsion bubbles, and other print flaws are present in the picture.

A Small Town Bully [The Little Teacher] (1915) has been mastered from a fair 16mm reduction print of a rerelease version of the film that is coarse in its image details. Dust, speckling, schmutz, splices, and other print flaws are present in the picture.

Run, Girl, Run (1928) has been mastered from a fair to good 8mm reduction print of the film, with dust, speckling, schmutz, splices, frame jitters, and other print flaws present.

The films are presented with soundtracks compiled from preexisting jazz music recordings.

For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films in this collection, see our The Manicure Lady on home video page.

We don’t recommend this below-average disc since all of the films are available elsewhere in better-looking editions on home video.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
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