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Forgotten Funnymen:
Billy Bevan
Volume 1
(1924-1928)

Contents: Wall Street Blues (1924), Butter Fingers (1925), Wandering Willies (1926), Whispering Whiskers (1926) and The Beach Club (1928).

This collection is of note for the inclusion of an alternate version of Wandering Willies (1926) that can be assumed to be the export version of the film.

Alpha Video
2012 DVD edition

Forgotten Funnymen: Billy Bevan, Volume 1 (1924-1928), black & white, 83 minutes total, not rated, including Wall Street Blues (1924), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, Butter Fingers (1925), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, Wandering Willies (1926) [export version], black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, Whispering Whiskers (1926), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, and The Beach Club (1928), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6754D, UPC 0-89218-67549-1.
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 6.6 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 5 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 17 April 2012.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 4 / additional content: 0 / overall: 4.

This budget DVD-R collection of Billy Bevan comedies made at the Mack Sennett studio has been mastered from 8mm and 16mm reduction prints. Among the better-looking films is Whispering Whiskers.

The films are accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting music recordings.

For our comparative reviews of some of these films, see our Wall Street Blues on home video and Wandering Willies on home video pages.

We don’t recommend this below-average disc since most of the films are available elsewhere in better-looking home video editions.

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