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The Marcel
Perez Collection
(1911-1921)
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Contents: Robinet’s White Suit (1911), Robinet in Love with a Caberet Singer (1911), Mademoiselle Robinet (1912), Robinet is Loved Too Much by His Wife (1912), Robinet is Jealous (1914), A Bathtub Elopement (1916), A Busy Night (1916), Camouflage (1918), You’re Next (1919), Sweet Daddy (1921).
Marcel Perez was known to international audiences as Robinet, Twede-Dan and Tweedledum over the course of his career as a film comedian.
This collection of ten short comedies produced in Italy and America is presented from surviving prints held by the Library of Congress and the Eye Film Instituut Nederland.
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 Undercrank Productions
2015 DVD edition
The Marcel Perez Collection (1911-1921), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 120 minutes total, not rated, including Robinet’s White Suit (1911), black & white, 4 minutes, not rated, Robinet in Love with a Caberet Singer (1911), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, Mademoiselle Robinet (1912), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, Robinet is Loved Too Much by His Wife (1912), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, Robinet is Jealous (1914), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, A Bathtub Elopement (1916), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, A Busy Night (1916), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, Camouflage (1918), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, You’re Next (1919), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Sweet Daddy (1921), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated.
Undercrank Productions, no catalog number, UPC 6-63593-21949-7.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 26 January 2015.
Country of origin: USA
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