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Snub Pollard
Showtime

(1919-1942)

 

Contents: An Auto Nut (1919), The Courtship 0f Miles Sandwich (1923), Join the Circus (1923), The Big Idea (1924) and Vitamin “U” for Me (1942).

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2010 DVD edition

Snub Pollard Showtime (1919-1942), black & white, 58 minutes total, not rated, including An Auto Nut (1919), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, The Courtship 0f Miles Sandwich (1923), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, Join the Circus (1923), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, The Big Idea (1924), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, and Vitamin “U” for Me (1942), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6466D, UPC 0-89218-64669-9.
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 6.8 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 5 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $6.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 30 November 2010.
Country of origin: USA

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

This DVD-R collection has been mastered from 16mm and (mostly) 8mm reduction prints. Join the Circus has been mastered from a fair 8mm reduction print of poor resolution.

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

For our comparative reviews of some of the films in this collection, see our An Auto Nut on home video, The Big Idea on home video and The Courtship of Miles Sandwich on home video pages.

We wouldn’t recommend this below-average disc but a few of the films are available nowhere else on home video.

 
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