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Post by freewheelin on Aug 11, 2010 11:27:06 GMT -5
I am new to this board and would like your expert opinions regarding the attached DVD boxed set of the Rascals silent episodes. Is this a well made product? Many thanks! Attachments:
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Post by antifrodis on Aug 11, 2010 13:37:46 GMT -5
I've never seen that set before, but I can tell you that most of the films are going to look pretty rough. Also, very few of them will be the complete films. Most will be shortened/edited versions of the films and in some cases will only be half the length of the original films. It seems that everyone that puts out these sets uses the same source materials for them. Instead of going out and finding the films for themselves, they simply grab them from other sources (Grapevine, Cabin Fever, etc) and put them on dvd (or even more probable, DVD-R) to try and make a buck. If you look at the following website, you can find out where many of these films were sourced from. www.theluckycorner.comI wish there was a set of all the Our Gang silents in excellent, complete condition, but it doesn't exist. |
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Post by katrinka on Aug 11, 2010 15:05:39 GMT -5
My hubby bought this for me from ebay. While the seller says there are 9 volumes, there are only 3 disks, with three volumes on each disks.
It's made by a company called barkview. The episodes are watermarked with the name. They also slapped a security device enclosed labels on the set.
the condition is okay, not bad, just okay. almost all of the shorts are cut, with a few exceptions.
the only thing I like is that the shorts are presented in the order they came out.
The set you pictured seemed to get a lot of it's copies from the seller who is selling the 14 disc set. Most of the discs are copies made from grapevine.
there is a seller on ebay whose set I was quite pleased with. He sent his with liner notes ect. These also were mostly complete. They are the best 'private seller' made copies of the episodes I've seen. He fully admits that his six dvd set are dvd-rs.
I wish there were a set of the silents that were put out the same way as the hallmark set.
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Post by freewheelin on Aug 12, 2010 14:56:08 GMT -5
Thank you all for your help with this. It is very much appreciated!!!
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Post by freewheelin on Aug 12, 2010 15:10:01 GMT -5
By the way, do you recall the same of the seller on ebay who puts out these better quality sets? Many thanks!
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Post by katrinka on Aug 12, 2010 16:50:10 GMT -5
By the way, do you recall the same of the seller on ebay who puts out these better quality sets? Many thanks! It's michaelofcrystallake . You might use a good sniping program, such as vrane.com (which is free) I suggest that because he doesn't do buy it now. good luck! |
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Post by mtw12055 on Aug 12, 2010 17:29:00 GMT -5
there is a seller on ebay whose set I was quite pleased with. He sent his with liner notes ect. These also were mostly complete. They are the best 'private seller' made copies of the episodes I've seen. He fully admits that his six dvd set are dvd-rs. I wish there were a set of the silents that were put out the same way as the hallmark set. Is this by any chance the set you were referring to? littlerascals.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=875 |
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Post by katrinka on Aug 12, 2010 17:43:47 GMT -5
there is a seller on ebay whose set I was quite pleased with. He sent his with liner notes ect. These also were mostly complete. They are the best 'private seller' made copies of the episodes I've seen. He fully admits that his six dvd set are dvd-rs. I wish there were a set of the silents that were put out the same way as the hallmark set. Is this by any chance the set you were referring to? littlerascals.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=875No, it's not. The set has photos of the silent Our Gang stars on both sides of the cover. On the back of each two disc case he lists the titles of the shorts and the rascals in them. Inside the cover he made two pages of liner notes. (so there is four pages) the notes describe in detail the episodes on the dvd set. It also isn't just a pure rip of the grapevine videos-I have those. There are 72 shorts plus Reunion in Rythem on six dvds. |
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Post by antifrodis on Aug 12, 2010 23:40:43 GMT -5
By the way, do you recall the same of the seller on ebay who puts out these better quality sets? Many thanks! It's michaelofcrystallake . You might use a good sniping program, such as vrane.com (which is free) I suggest that because he doesn't do buy it now. good luck! The seller lists a new set every day practically. No need for sniping. They're making a killing selling these discs. This particular set is missing "Ten Years Old", which is available from A-1 video. The rest of the shorts that are not included in the set are a bit more tricky to find (and in a few cases, IMPOSSIBLE). |
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Post by OPT on Aug 13, 2010 1:07:34 GMT -5
No need for sniping. They're making a killing selling these discs. T Especially since they are not all PD shorts.  NOT a bad price for mediocre to fair quality with a lot of content. I had to pay a lot more years ago before everyone turned into pirates, list on ebay and all over the net, and claim it is PD  |
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Post by katrinka on Aug 13, 2010 6:39:06 GMT -5
No need for sniping. They're making a killing selling these discs. T Especially since they are not all PD shorts. NOT a bad price for mediocre to fair quality with a lot of content. I had to pay a lot more years ago before everyone turned into pirates, list on ebay and all over the net, and claim it is PD I was saying to snipe to pay the lowest price the poster could. Yes the seller lists it alot, but why pay more then you have to? I got my 6 disc set for only 5.00 by sniping. Also, getting Our Gang off of Ebay isn't a new thing. I got my video tapes of Silents off of Ebay. "Private seller" HenryButch sold his tapes on Ebay. Grapevine ect also sold their tapes on Ebay. at the time they could have been considered 'pirates' since they didn't hold copywrite. They did provide a service that was needed. I for one was glad they did sell tapes. thanks for the tip on Ten Years old. I'll be calling the seller when they open. Now if I could find the cobbler and Jublio Jr. |
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Post by antifrodis on Aug 13, 2010 10:19:11 GMT -5
Especially since they are not all PD shorts. NOT a bad price for mediocre to fair quality with a lot of content. I had to pay a lot more years ago before everyone turned into pirates, list on ebay and all over the net, and claim it is PD I was saying to snipe to pay the lowest price the poster could. Yes the seller lists it alot, but why pay more then you have to? I got my 6 disc set for only 5.00 by sniping. Also, getting Our Gang off of Ebay isn't a new thing. I got my video tapes of Silents off of Ebay. "Private seller" HenryButch sold his tapes on Ebay. Grapevine ect also sold their tapes on Ebay. at the time they could have been considered 'pirates' since they didn't hold copywrite. They did provide a service that was needed. I for one was glad they did sell tapes. thanks for the tip on Ten Years old. I'll be calling the seller when they open. Now if I could find the cobbler and Jublio Jr. Well, Grapevine probably did their own transfers of the films. So they have that going for them. I'm pretty sure most of what HenryButch was selling was borrowed from other sources. I had all the volumes of tapes he made available and there were only a few unique items there. Here's "The Cobbler", cobbled together by yours truly using at least 5 different sources from a few generous people (you know who you are!  . The film is not available on VHS or DVD from any vendor, or on Ebay. part 1 part 2 |
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Post by freewheelin on Aug 13, 2010 13:47:11 GMT -5
Thank you again, Katrinka!
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Post by fourlittlerascals on Aug 24, 2010 12:36:52 GMT -5
antifrodis - if you can PM me, I'd like to see if I can get my vhs copies back I loaned you a long long while ago - thanks!
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Post by fourlittlerascals on Aug 24, 2010 12:42:53 GMT -5
I got 66 silents from a seller on Ioffer for $20. Some are rough; missing titles etc., but it's probably the same set that's been circulating for the most part (minus some) and it was a way to fill out the few I was missing; and save me the time and effort of transferring all of mine to DVD. He shipped them very quickly.
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NOT a bad price for mediocre to fair quality with a lot of content. I had to pay a lot more years ago before everyone turned into pirates, list on ebay and all over the net, and claim it is PD 