By coincidence I found, that there was just a new DVD release in Germany in July. It's (until now) a set of 2 DVDs called Die kleinen Strolche 2. ZDF Staffel (first aired in 1967).
These are abridged films with removed inter-titles. And this ones have new music, noises and a German narration by Jürgen Scheller (and 2 kids), which were assumed to be lost.
There are only German titles listed, like Jahrmarkt (set 2), which is obviously my favourite episode The Big Show (aka County Fair, pictured). Just 15 minutes per episode, so next to the inter-titles, they often removed the 2nd part of the longer movies, which is here the best scene with the show/stage play. So not sure if it's included.
And the image quality is probably not better than on previous releases but not tinted yellow.
In March, I posted the remastered BluRays by ClassicFlix. After 6 BD of the talkies, they confirmed now going to remaster the silent films. Not sure when and if it include these very early ones. At least one other company had a very good remastered version of this movie and announced a release in 2023. So there's more than one hope.
There are some new uploads on YouTube, but image quality is of course even poorer than the DVDs. Also some other colorized movies f/m. And I haven't checked all foreign titles.
https://biboverallsfilms.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-big-show-1923-our-gang-ordered.html
https://biboverallsfilms.blogspot.com/2020/04/list-63-our-gang-chonological.html
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