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The Comedy of
Max Linder
(1906-1914)
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Contents: His First Cigar [Le premier cigare d’un collégien] (1906), Legend of Ponchinella [La légende de Polichinelle] (1906), Max Learns to Skate [Les débuts d’un patineur] (1907), Max Juggles for Love [La petite rosse] (1909), Max Gets Stuck Up [Max ne se mariera pas] (1910), Max Takes a Bath [Max prend un bain] (1910), Max and the Quinquina [Max, victime du quinquina] (1911), Max and His Mother-in-Law [Max et sa belle-mère] (1911), Max and the Statue [Max et l’inauguration de la statue] (1912), Max and His Dog [Max et son chien Dick] (1912), Max Fears the Dogs [Max a peur des chiens] (1912), Max’s Hat [Le chapeau de Max] (1913), Max and the Lady Doctor [Max et la doctoresse] (1914) and Max Plays at Drama [Max joue le drame] (1914).
It is worth noting that several of the release dates attributed to these films on the disc’s packaging are wildly inaccurate.
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 Grapevine Video
2005 DVD edition
The Comedy of Max Linder (1906-1914), color-toned black & white and black & white, 115 minutes total, not rated, including His First Cigar [Le premier cigare d’un collégien] (1906), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Legend of Ponchinella [La légende de Polichinelle] (1906), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Max Learns to Skate [Les débuts d’un patineur] (1907), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Max Juggles for Love [La petite rosse] (1909), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Max Gets Stuck Up [Max ne se mariera pas] (1910), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Max Takes a Bath [Max prend un bain] (1910), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Max and the Quinquina [Max, victime du quinquina] (1911), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Max and the Statue [Max et l’inauguration de la statue] (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Max and His Mother-in-Law [Max et sa belle-mère] (1911), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Max and His Dog [Max et son chien Dick] (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Max Fears the Dogs [Max a peur des chiens] (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Max’s Hat [Le chapeau de Max] (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Max and the Lady Doctor [Max et la doctoresse] (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Max Plays at Drama [Max joue le drame] (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10094-9.
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; $16.95.
Release date: 7 February 2005.
Country of origin: USA
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