This set showed up in my mail today, a Blu-Ray/DVD collection of Charley Bowers films. It's a pretty odd obscure release, I couldn't find many places to order it online that ship to my location and Amazon France did not stock it directly, I ended up ordering a slightly pricier copy off Heeza. I can confirm it's English-friendly, most of the films are sourced from French prints but have optional English subtitles.

From what I've skimmed, most of the two-reel live-action/stop-mo films look very good. However, I have a nagging feeling that some of the films (particularly the Mutt and Jeff entry and the later stop-mo shorts) seem to be SD upconverts or just simply old, not up to scratch transfers. A few curious things about this collection, it's stored in a regular DVD-sized case (with a booklet in French and postcard enclosed) and the actual resolution is 1080i/25fps (PAL speedup is not dead folks, apparently a few other Lobster titles are like this as well). Doesn't affect the quality much in my eyes, I look forward to watching the set in more depth over the weekend. A couple of the two-reelers I viewed were a really inventive mix of surreal stop-motion and irreverent live-action slapstick.

Full list of contents (with restoration notes roughly translated from the booklet):
EGGED ON (1927) – French nitrate original sourced from La Cinematheque de Toulouse, now conserved at the Cinematheque royale de Belgique
HE DONE HIS BEST (1926) – Reconstructed from a French fragment and a partial copy from an Austrian private collection
A WILD ROOMER (1926) – Reconstructed from two nitrate copies from La Cinematheque de Toulouse and La Cinematheque Francaise
FATAL FOOTSTEP (1926) – Restored from the longest existing element available, French intertitles
MANY A SLIP (1927) – Restored from the longest existing element available, French intertitles
NOTHING DOING (1927) – 2003 restoration of a (no longer existing?) nitrate from the Narodni Filmarchiv (Vladmir Opera, Prague), recreated French intertitles replace Czech ones
NOW YOU TELL ONE (1926) – Restored from the longest existing element available, French intertitles
THERE IT IS (1928) – Original Educational Pictures print preserved by the George Eastman House
GRILL ROOM EXPRESS (1917) – 35mm nitrate copy preserved by Lobster Films in 1998
WHOOZIT (1928) – Restored from a partial 16mm copy preserved by the Eye FilmInstitute, Amsterdam
SAY AH-H! (1928) – Partial copy presereved by the Library of Congress, no soundtrack accomponiment
BELIEVE IT OR DON'T (1935) – 16mm from the collection of Mark Newgarden bought off an online auction
WILD OYSTERS (1940) – 16mm French Paramount print
A SLEEPLESS NIGHT (1940) – Presereved by the Library of Congress, no soundtrack accomponiment
A.W.O.L. (1918) – 16mm
IT'S A BIRD (1930) – 35mm UK nitrate from the collection of Tony Scott restored in 2014
OIL, CAN AND DOES (1940) – 16mm Kodachrome print discovered in 2014

Bonus Freatures: LOOKING FOR CHARLEY BOWERS (2003), PHOTO GALLERY

Going by the DVDTalk review of the old DVD, this new collection adds THERE IT IS, WHOOZIT and OIL, CAN AND DOES, but drops PETE ROLEUM AND HIS COUSINS (tho apparently OIL, CAN AND DOES is an updated version of sorts, have to check...)