Mack Sennett Collection: 100 Years of Keystone Comedy

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[Atreyu]

Awesome news. Cannot wait for this on blu next year. Keep me posted.

[RogelioT]

I'm assuming this is the upcoming Mack Sennett Collection Vol. 1 but they've changed the title... right?
Flicker Alley has now posted a list of the 50 included films (on the Flicker Alley product info page)

THE MACK SENNETT COLLECTION, VOL. 1 includes:

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1 THE CURTAIN POLE
2 THE MANICURE LADY
3 A DASH THROUGH THE CLOUDS
4 THE WATER NYMPH
5 A GROCERY CLERK’S ROMANCE
6 ON HIS WEDDING DAY
7 BANGVILLE POLICE
8 A FISHY AFFAIR
9 THE SPEED KINGS
10 THE THIEF CATCHER
11 THE GREAT TOE MYSTERY
12 RECREATION
13 SHOT IN THE EXCITEMENT
14 THE NOISE OF BOMBS
15 AMBROSE’S FIRST FALSEHOOD
16 A BIRD’S A BIRD
17 GUSSLE’S DAY OF REST
18 DO-RE-MI-BOOM!
19 A LOVER’S LOST CONTROL
20 A SUBMARINE PIRATE
21 FATTY AND MABEL ADRIFT
22 HIS BITTER PILL
23 MADCAP AMBROSE
24 TEDDY AT THE THROTTLE
25 HER TORPEDOED LOVE
26 A CLEVER DUMMY
27 HEARTS AND FLOWERS
28 DOWN ON THE FARM (FEATURE)
29 DON’T WEAKEN
30 GYMNASIUM JIM
31 THE EXTRA GIRL (FEATURE)
32 THE DARE-DEVIL
33 BLACK OXFORDS
34 GALLOPING BUNGALOWS
35 HIS MARRIAGE WOW
36 SUPER-HOOPER-DYNE LIZZIES
37 A RAINY KNIGHT
38 SATURDAY AFTERNOON
39 A SEA DOG’S TALE
40 HOBOKEN TO HOLLYWOOD
41 ICE COLD COCOS
42 BROKE IN CHINA
43 THE PRIDE OF PIKEVILLE
44 FIDDLESTICKS
45 RUN, GIRL, RUN
46 TAXI FOR TWO
47 THE DENTIST
48 TOO MANY HIGHBALLS
49 DON’T PLAY BRIDGE WITH YOUR WIFE (SOUND)
50 THE FATAL GLASS OF BEER (SOUND)

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Bonus Content

- 16-page full color booklet filled with rare images, production information, restoration notes, and Keystone - Sennett player biographies

- 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, Richard M. Roberts, Stan Taffel, Sam Gill, Paul Gierucki, and others

- Memorabilia galleries featuring vintage lobby cards, glass slides, posters, scripts, studio photographs, The Mack Sennett Story by film historian Joe Adamson, and rare audio recordings

- Long unseen rarities: newsreels, trailers, outtakes, Sennett-Color films, the dedication of the Mabel Normand soundstage, This Is Your Life Mack Sennett, and much more!

[Bluyoda]

Pardon my ignorance, but is this one packed with comedies?
Are there Charlie Chaplin shorts on it as well?
I have never heard of him , but I am interested.
Any help would be appreciated.
I might order it together with the Charlie Chaplin collection.

[bigshot]

The Mack Sennett set has Keystone Cops, Fatty Arbuckle and W C Fields shorts among others. I don't believe this set includes any Sennett Chaplins. But those are collected on a fantastic DVD set.

[EddieLarkin]

Recreation is a Chaplin film, presumably featured here because superior elements have been found since the Keystone DVD set was released (where Recreation looked pretty terrible). The Thief Catcher isn't a Chaplin film, but he does have a minor role.

Also, a number of the films feature Charlie's big brother, Syd Chaplin.

[Bluyoda]

I have just ordered the bundle from their website.

Thanks

[bigshot]

I'll wait. The Chaplin will keep me busy for weeks.

[Bluyoda]

Is it save to blind-buy this set in terms of content, picture and audio quality?

I really love Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold LLoyd, but the picture quality of Buster Keaton's ( https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Buste...Blu-ray/23434/ )
is really bad at many points, so I am seriously disappointed in that, and don't want another disaster like this in my collection.

I've already pre-ordered both, the Sennett and Chaplin collections through Flicker Alley, but I could still cancel and wait for the reviews.
I don't care for steelbooks much at all anyways.

[Bucky]

Originally Posted by Bluyoda

Is it save to blind-buy this set in terms of content, picture and audio quality?

I really love Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold LLoyd, but the picture quality of Buster Keaton's ( https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Buste...Blu-ray/23434/ )
is really bad at many points, so I am seriously disappointed in that, and don't want another disaster like this in my collection.

I've already pre-ordered both, the Sennett and Chaplin collections through Flicker Alley, but I could still cancel and wait for the reviews.
I don't care for steelbooks much at all anyways.

If it really concerns you, I would probably wait. I think the Chaplin collection should be safe based on how the Spanish release of his Mutuals collection looked.

[jshaide]

I never ordered from Flicker Alley before. Do they send out shipping notices when the items go out?

[bigshot]

Flicker Alley is the safest of the safe bets. Everything they do is the best quality possible, and they release things no one else would. Their Nanook of the North disk is absolutely amazing. So are the Cinerama disks. Other companies, I think twice about paying the premium price, but not Flicker Alley.

The Keaton shorts are different than the Chaplin Mutuals. Chaplin had a LOT of money to work with and it all showed on the screen. The Keystone comedies are a little rougher, but oh man! The treasures in that set... I can't wait to see an intact version of W C Fields. Even Criterion messed those up.

[EVERYONE LIES]

Where is the love for this set? I just got it in the mail today, i can't wait to dig in after the Orioles beat the White Sox

[Egbert Souse]

Originally Posted by Bluyoda

Is it save to blind-buy this set in terms of content, picture and audio quality?

I really love Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold LLoyd, but the picture quality of Buster Keaton's ( https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Buste...Blu-ray/23434/ )
is really bad at many points, so I am seriously disappointed in that, and don't want another disaster like this in my collection.

I've already pre-ordered both, the Sennett and Chaplin collections through Flicker Alley, but I could still cancel and wait for the reviews.
I don't care for steelbooks much at all anyways.

A lot of silent films don't survive with high quality prints - Kino could have left off the roughest ones and only release those with better prints, but it doesn't make sense to omit films just over quality. They still did a great job transferring the rough prints without blasting with DVNR.

[TucoStrangelove]

Mine shipped from blowitouttahere last week (along with the Chaplin Mutual Comedies). I really can't wait to check these out!

[Dragun]

The Keaton films look as good as they possibly can, considering the elements they had to work with.

[geekesmind]

will be picking this up sometime next month.

[AgentOrange]

Originally Posted by Dragun

The Keaton films look as good as they possibly can, considering the elements they had to work with.

I severely doubt that.

Like many Kino releases, those were just taken "as-is". I'm sure if someone actually restored and/or reconstructed them - there is plenty of room for improvement.

Supposedly some of the more severely damaged shorts on the blu-ray, were in much better condition on other DVD releases (not from Kino). So that sort of implies there was at least some potential for alternate sources to clean up the most damaged sections.

[Hubunkey]

Sucks that it only includes 1 of the W.C. Fields Six Short Films that Criterion released Maybe the other 5 will be on Volume 2 if they even fit this set

[bigshot]

It has another Fields film... "The Fatal Glass of Beer". "It's not a fit night out, for man nor beast!"