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The
Charley Chase
Collection
Volume 2
(1922-1926)

Contents: Shine ’em Up (1922), His Wooden Wedding (1925), Innocent Husbands (1925), Isn’t Life Terrible (1925), Dog Shy (1926) and Bromo and Juliet (1926).

Kino on Video
2005 DVD edition

The Charley Chase Collection, Volume 2 (1922-1926), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 151 minutes total, not rated, including His Wooden Wedding (1925), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, Isn’t Life Terrible (1925), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Innocent Husbands (1925), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Dog Shy (1926), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, Bromo and Juliet (1926), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, and Shine ’em Up (1922), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, K432, UPC 7-38329-04322-3.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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 5.6 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $24.95.
Release date: 13 September 2005.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 9 / additional content: 8 / overall: 8.

This DVD collection was originally produced for home video by Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg of Lobster Films, Paris, from 35mm, 16mm and 8mm source prints of varying quality from good to very-good.

The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed on piano by Neil Brand.

Supplemental material includes a Paul Parrott (Charley’s brother) short comedy; and A Charley Chase Biography (2004), a special montage about Chase’s life, narrated by Serge Bromberg and directed by Eric Lange (5 minutes).

We recommend this home video collection of Chase films.

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