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Going Ga-Ga
(1929)

This late silent Hal Roach comedy features Anita Garvin, Marion Byron, Max Davidson and Edgar Kennedy.

The film was presumed lost but an incomplete print with Czech intertitles was recovered and a reconstruction effort has been undertaken by Filmmuseum München.

Edition Filmmuseum
2010 DVD edition

Hal Roach: Female Comedy Teams (1928-1935), black & white, 228 minutes total, not rated, including Going Ga-Ga (1929) [fragments], black & white, 5 minutes, not rated.

Edition Filmmuseum, 57, UPC/EAN 4-260100-33057-5.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), 7.2 Mbps average video bit rate, 128 Kbps audio bit rate (silent), Dolby Digital 48 kHz 1.0 mono sound (silent), English language intertitles, optional German language subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; €29,95 (reduced to €25,17).
Release date: 17 December 2010 (reissued in enhanced edition January 2012).
Country of origin: Germany

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 0 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.

This PAL DVD incomplete reconstruction is being produced by Filmmuseum München under the supervision of Stefan Drössler. The restoration effort utilizes a fragmentary Czech print recovered by Národni Filmový Archiv and was identified as a work-in-progress in 2010.

The fragments are presented without a music score. The supplementary 1930s films on the collection are presented with their original soundtracks.

North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.

This Region 0 PAL DVD edition is available directly from . . .