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Silent Slapstick
Comedy Parade
Volume 3
(1913-1924)

Contents: The Jazz Band Leader [The Ragtime Band] (1913), A Sanitarium Scandal (1917), All is Fair [abridgment of Married to Order] (1920) and Family Life (1924).

Alpha Video
2024 DVD edition

Silent Slapstick Comedy Parade, Volume 3 (1913-1924), black & white, 64 minutes total, not rated, including The Jazz Band Leader [The Ragtime Band] (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Sanitarium Scandal (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, All is Fair [abridgement of Married to Order] (1920), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Family Life (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8598D, UPC 0-89218-85989-1.
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; $8.98.
Release date: 26 March 2024.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm or 8mm reduction prints.

The films are likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music sources.

Probably not a great presentation but, for some of these films, this is the only home video edition of the film we know of.

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