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Forgotten Funnymen:
Billy Bevan
Volume 2
(1923-1928)

Contents: Love’s Intrigue [possibly One Cylinder Love] (1923), The Iron Nag (1925), Hoboken to Hollywood (1926) and The Best Man (1928).

Alpha Video
2012 DVD edition

Forgotten Funnymen: Billy Bevan, Volume 2 (1923-1928), black & white, 63 minutes total, not rated, including Love’s Intrigue [possibly One Cylinder Love] (1923), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Iron Nag (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Hoboken to Hollywood (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Best Man (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6801D, UPC 0-89218-68019-8.
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: 26 June 2012.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection of Billy Bevan comedies for Mack Sennett has been mastered from 8mm and/or 16mm reduction prints.

The films are 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.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .

Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

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