Region 4 Winners and Losers

    This material has also been issued in other regions. The material was mastered for PAL release in Europe, and the NTSC versions were made from the PAL masters, not from the original prints, and as a consequence of this the Region 1 release suffers from motion blurring artefacts and cannot be recommended. Two reviews of the Region 1 I have read mention that the contents of the discs are reversed from that stated on the cover, where The Chaplin Revue is said to be on Disc Two when it is in fact on Disc One. My review copies did not come with the slick, but the disc labelled Disc Two has the title feature. I have presumed for the purposes of the review that the labelling is correct.

    A three disc set of Chaplin films I have from Region 1 called Chaplin: The Artist in His Prime contains five of the seven shorts on the new set in their original forms but in poorer condition. The new set is much better.

    A now out-of-print disc from Region 1 called A First National Collection included six of the seven films (excluding A Dog's Life, which was included on the separate disc containing The Kid) but not The Chaplin Revue versions. Apparently the print quality on this set was fine.