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Amusement Park
Antics

(1903-1930)

 

Contents: Rube and Mandy at Coney Island (1903), Coney Island (1917), Why Pick on Me? (1918), Number, Please? (1920), Off Again (1927) and Meet Me Down at Coney Isle (1930).

Alpha Video
2014 DVD edition

Amusement Park Antics (1903-1930), black & white, 80 minutes total, not rated, including Rube and Mandy at Coney Island (1903), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Coney Island (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Why Pick on Me? (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Number, Please? (1920), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Off Again (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Meet Me Down at Coney Isle (1930), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7279D, UPC 0-89218-72799-2.
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 foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 29 July 2014.
Country of origin: USA
This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm and/or 8mm reduction prints.

The films are likely presented with soundtracks compiled from preexisting low-fi recordings.

We don’t recommend this below-average disc since some of the films are available elsewhere in better-looking home video editions.

 
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