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The Adventures of
Syd Chaplin
(1914-1915)

Contents: Gussle the Golfer (1914), Gussle’s Backward Way (1915), Gussle’s Day of Rest (1915), Gussle’s Wayward Path (1915) and Gussle Tied to Trouble (1915).

Alpha Video
2016 DVD edition

The Adventures of Syd Chaplin (1914-1915), black & white, 68 minutes total, not rated, including Gussle the Golfer (1914), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Gussle’s Backward Way (1915), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Gussle’s Day of Rest (1915), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Gussle’s Wayward Path (1915), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, and Gussle Tied to Trouble (1915), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7729D, UPC 0-89218-77299-2.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; 5 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 5 January 2016.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has been mastered from a range of reduction prints.

The films are accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting recordings.

We wouldn’t recommend this below-average disc but a few of the films are available nowhere else on home video. However, the low quality of many of the source prints can make this DVD tough going.

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