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The Movie Man’s Matinee
Volume 4
(1915-1929)

Contents: A Human Hound’s Triumph (1915), A Lucky Leap (1915), A Millionaire for a Minute (1915), Ye Olden Grafter (1915), Eats for Two (1927), Nifty Numbers (1928) and Sappy Service (1929).

Alpha Video
2019 DVD edition

The Movie Man’s Matinee, Volume 4 (1915-1929), black & white, 72 minutes total, not rated, including A Human Hound’s Triumph (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Lucky Leap (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Millionaire for a Minute (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Ye Olden Grafter (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Eats for Two (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Nifty Numbers (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Sappy Service (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8287D, UPC 0-89218-82879-8.
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 again to $9.99).
Release date: 12 November 2019.
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.

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