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The Mack Sennett Collection Volume One
This award winning Blu-ray collection features 50 restored silent and sound comedies produced by the legendary King of Comedy - Mack Sennett!
The Keystone Film Company, under the guidance of pioneering producer and director Mack Sennett, was the birthplace of classic American slapstick comedy. This historic studio was at one time home to nearly every major silent screen comedian: Mabel Normand, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, Wallace Beery, Harry Langdon, Marie Dressler, Ben Turpin, The Keystone Cops, Ford Sterling, Charley Chase, Al St. John, Mack Swain, Edgar Kennedy, Billy Bevan, Louise Fazenda, Eddie Quillan, and countless others. Even Hollywood icon Charlie Chaplin introduced his beloved Tramp character under the auspices of Keystone. Later, under the Mack Sennett Comedies banner, Sennett went on to produce a new generation of sound comedies, some in early color, featuring the likes of W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Lloyd Hamilton, Andy Clyde, and more.
While the Sennett and Keystone names are permanently etched in Hollywood history, time has not been as kind to the original films which had made generations laugh for over a century. Of the approximately 1000 titles produced by Sennett throughout his career only several hundred are known to survive – some only in fragmentary form.
Now, for the first time, 50 of the best surviving Sennett comedies have been gathered from around the world and fully restored and digitally remastered in HD by CineMuseum, LLC! These new editions have been painstakingly reconstructed using original 35mm nitrate, archival negatives, preservation materials, and sometimes the lone known surviving film print, from the collections of the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Blackhawk Films, Lobster Films, Richard M. Roberts, and dozens of privately held archives. This volume premieres a wealth of rare, unknown, and previously thought lost footage which had been locked away in vaults and unseen for nearly 100 years! Finally, these long neglected classic comedies may once again be seen as originally intended.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Full color 28 page booklet featuring production notes for each film and rare images from the Keystone and Sennett productions.
- New music scores from silent film accompanists Philip Carli, Ben Model, Dennis Scott, Andrew Simpson, and Donald Sosin.
- Commentary tracks from noted comedy historians Brent Walker, Steve Massa, Michael Hayde, Richard M. Roberts, Stan Taffel, Nick Santa Maria, Bruce Lawton, Doug Sulpy, and Paul E. Gierucki.
- The Sennett Story by film historian Joe Adamson
- Long unseen rarities: newsreels, trailers, outtakes, rushes, Sennett-Color films, dedication of the Mabel Normand soundstage, This Is Your Life Mack Sennett, and much more!
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The Round Up Starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
Silent screen legend Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, master of short subject comedies, made his debut as the star of feature length films in George Melford’s production of THE ROUND UP (1920). In this action-packed drama, Arbuckle portrays Sheriff Slim Hoover, a “legitimate” role which not only offers a perfect vehicle for Arbuckle’s clever brand of humor, but also reveals him to be a dramatic actor of the first order! This first class western has everything, including silent film mega-star Buster Keaton in an uncredited cameo as an Apache Indian!
Pulled from distribution in 1921, this historic film has been unavailable to the general public for over 95 years – until now.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- This dual format release includes one DVD and one Blu-Ray disc
- New 4K digital transfer and restoration of the 35mm archival master preserved by Paramount Archives and the Library of Congress - Packard Campus of Audiovisual Conservation
- New score composed and performed by Donald Sosin
- Audio commentary featuring author and film historian Richard M. Roberts
- Two new restorations of Arbuckle’s earliest Keystone comedy shorts: A BANDIT and PEEPING PETE (both 1913), featuring new organ scores composed and performed by Dennis Scott
- Gallery of original theatrical posters, lobby cards, glass slides, stills, programs, and memorabilia
- PLUS: Full color booklet featuring production information, restoration notes, and more!
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Stooge O-Rama: The Men Behind the Mayhem - and Even More Mayhem
Stooge O-Rama: The Men Behind the Mayhem - and Even More Mayhem
The Three Stooges have been entertaining fans with their riotous brand of eye-gouging, face slapping, and head bopping insanity for nearly 100 years!
Now, CINEMUSEUM LLC and KIT PARKER FILMS offer fans of the Amalgamated Morons a chance to revisit the Golden Age of Stoogery with this new 3-Disc collection of archival rarities.
Whether you’re a lifelong Stoogephile, or just a casual knucklehead, you are sure to find something to love about this comprehensive tribute to America’s most beloved madcaps: Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe, and Curly Joe – The Three Stooges!
SPECIAL FEATURES
• Digitally remastered and updated HD version of the award-winning documentary program STOOGES: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM, with new introduction by Curly Howard’s real-life grandson, Bradley Server
• Lost theatrical featurette SURPRISE, SURPRISE (1937) starring Moe, Larry, and Curly
• Long unseen short subject EVERYBODY LIKES MUSIC (1934) starring Shemp Howard
• Over 8 hours of bonus material including unreleased outtakes, color home movies, rare television appearances and commercials, theatrical trailers, unseen archival interview footage, forgotten audio recordings from live stooge appearances, family photo galleries, and much more new-to-home-video fun!
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