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The Essential
Charlie Chaplin Collection
(1914-1915)

Contents: Dough and Dynamite (1914), In the Park (1915), The Tramp (1915) and By the Sea (1915).

Delta Entertainment
2003 DVD edition

The Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection (1914-1915), black & white, 72 minutes total, not rated, including Dough and Dynamite (1914), black & white, 28 minutes, not rated, In the Park (1915), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, The Tramp (1915), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, and By the Sea (1915), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated.

Delta Entertainment, 82 457, UPC 0-18111-24579-1.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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 24 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.99.
Release date: 18 March 2003.
Country of origin: USA

This budget DVD collection follows the suit of other Chaplin collections: put as few films onto as many discs as possible, regardless of print quality and sell them as cheap as possible. And don’t expect them to be mastered from anything but subpar 16mm and 8mm reduction prints.

For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films in this collection, see our By the Sea on home video, Dough and Dynamite on home video, In the Park on home video and The Tramp on home video pages.

Don’t consider buying this collection for the Chaplin Mutual films. The Mutual films have all been released on DVD home video in far superior editions transferred from 35mm prints. Cobra Entertainment (successor to Delta) rereleased remaining stock of this disc onto the market in 2010.

DELTA ENTERTAINMENT has discontinued business and this Region 0 NTSC DVD edition is . . .

Other silent era CHARLES CHAPLIN films available on home video.

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

Charles Chaplin filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List

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