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Hal Roach Rarities
Volume 1
(1921-1925)
 

Contents: The Pickaninny (1912), The Old Sea Dog (1922), North of 50-50 (1924) and Sure, Mike (1925).
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2013 DVD edition

Hal Roach Rarities, Volume 1 (1921-1925), black & white, 62 minutes total, not rated, including The Pickaninny (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Old Sea Dog (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, North of 50-50 (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Sure, Mike (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6988D, UPC 0-89218-69889-6.
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: 25 June 2013.
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 sources.

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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