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Hands Up!
(1926)

Raymond Griffith stars in this feature-length Civil War comedy directed by Clarence Badger, featuring Virginia Lee Corbin, Marian Nixon and Mack Swain.

Grapevine Video
2007 DVD edition

Hands Up! (1926), black & white, 70 minutes, not rated, with The Love Bug (1925), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10285-1.
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 7.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 256 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 8 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95 (reduced to $14.95).
Release date: 2007.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 4 / additional content: 3 / overall: 4.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a good 16mm reduction print that has a number of issues including a high contrast picture that often loses highlight image details, moderate dust and speckling, schmutz, and other print flaws. The slightly windowboxed video transfer will appear as full-frame on older CRT television monitors.

The film is accompanied by a low-fidelity music score performed on electric organ and piano (which sounds like a Bob Vaughn performance).

Supplemental material includes an Our Gang comedy short presented from a good 16mm reduction print (that has apparently been duplicated from surviving 16mm and 8mm elements), with a synchronized music score performed on electric organ, piano, celeste, electric guitar, percussion, and a sprinkling of silly sound effects.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .

Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition

Hands Up! (1926), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated.

Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
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 ? 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; $14.99.
Release date: 201?
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .