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Mabel Normand
Queen of Comedy
(1915-1916)

Contents: Mabel’s Wilful Way (1915), That Little Band of Gold (1915), Wished on Mabel (1915), Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916) and He Did and He Didn’t (1916).

Alpha Video
2016 DVD edition

Mabel Normand: Queen of Comedy (1915-1916), black & white, 88 minutes total, not rated, including Mabel’s Wilful Way (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, That Little Band of Gold (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Wished on Mabel (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and He Did and He Didn’t (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7761D, UPC 0-89218-77619-8.
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 ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 1 March 2016.
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.

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