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Mary Pickford
Rare Shorts IV
(1910-1912)

Contents: A Gold Necklace (1910), Muggsy Becomes a Hero (1910), As a Boy Dreams (1911), A Beast at Bay (1912), Friends (1912), An Indian Summer (1912), The Inner Circle (1912), The New York Hat (1912) and Won by a Fish (1912).

Silent Hall of Fame Enterprises
2017 DVD edition

Mary Pickford Rare Shorts IV (1910-1912), black & white, 132 minutes total, not rated, including A Gold Necklace (1910), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Muggsy Becomes a Hero (1910), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, As a Boy Dreams (1911), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, A Beast at Bay (1912), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Friends (1912), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, An Indian Summer (1912), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, The Inner Circle (1912), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, The New York Hat (1912), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, and Won by a Fish (1912), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated.

Silent Hall of Fame Enterprises, 198, unknown UPC number.
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; slimline CD jewelcase; $34.99 (raised again to $44.99).
Release date: 2017.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm and/or 8mm reduction prints (as might be surmised from the publisher-provided still frame above).

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

Reluctantly, this is our recommended home video edition of some of these films. We still criticize this publisher for their overpriced offerings that give the consumer as little value as possible.

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