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The Movie Man’s Matinee
Volume 5
(1920-1929)

 

Contents: Money to Burn (1920), Her Near-Sighted Father (1920), Paste and Paper (1923), Starvation Blues (1925), Too Much Dough (1926), Meet the Folks (1927) and Players at Play (1929).

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2020 DVD edition

The Movie Man’s Matinee, Volume 5 (1920-1929), black & white, 93 minutes total, not rated, including Money to Burn (1920), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Her Near-Sighted Father (1920), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Paste and Paper (1923), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Starvation Blues (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Too Much Dough (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Meet the Folks (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Players at Play (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8336D, UPC 0-89218-83369-3.
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: 21 July 2020.
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 recordings.

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

 
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