Flicker Alley (USA) and Film Preservation Associates (USA) has announced their NTSC DVD collection Georges Méliès: Encore (1896-1911), a 26-film, single-disc adjunct to their five-disc collection of Méliès short films, Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913). The disc, produced in conjunction will Lobster Films, Paris, will be available 16 February 2010.
Warner Home Video (USA) has released additional silent films on NTSC DVD-Rs in their Warner Archive Collection. The Pagan (1929) starring Ramon Novarro and Renée Adorée, and Weary River (1929) starring Richard Barthelmess and Betty Compson.
David B. Pearson has added more than 3000 new images of silent era actors and actresses to his Silent Ladies and Gents website.
Warner Home Video (USA) has released five new silent film NTSC DVD-Rs in their Warner Archive Collection. La Bohème (1926) directed by King Vidor and starring Lillian Gish and John Gilbert, Wild Oranges (1924) directed by Vidor and starring Frank Mayo and Ford Sterling, Tide of Empire (1929) directed by Allan Dwan and starring Renée Adorée and George Duryea, Captain Salvation (1927) starring Lars Hanson and Ernest Torrence, White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) starring Monte Blue, and The Flying Fleet (1929) starring Ramon Novarro, Ralph Graves and Anita Page.
Bruce Long, editor of Taylorology (an examination of the murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor), has kindly allowed us to add a Taylorology mirror site to the Silent Era website. Explore myriad information regarding the murder, compiled by Long over many years, here.
Flicker Alley (USA) and Film Preservation Associates (USA) has released their NTSC DVD edition of the Soviet homage to serial films, Miss Mend (1926). A joint production with Lobster Films, Paris, the presentation features musical accompaniment by Robert Israel.
On 1 November 2009, the Silent Era website celebrated its 10th anniversary. Editor and publisher Carl Bennett shares a few thoughts about the website’s history and future goals.
Kino International (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc of The General (1926). The two-disc edition has been mastered from a 35mm fine-grain positive struck from the original camera negative.
Grapevine Video (USA) has released four new silent film NTSC DVD-Rs. Burning Daylight (1928), from a Jack London novel, starring Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon, aviation serial Eagle of the Night (1928), Mickey (1918) starring Mabel Normand, with two versions of the film in the 2-disc set, and Secrets of the Night (1924) starring James Kirkwood and Madge Bellamy.
Sunrise Silents (USA) has released their remastered NTSC and PAL DVD-R editions of Hula (1927) starring Clara Bow. The discs feature an improved video transfer.
Eureka Video (England) has released their Blu-ray Disc Masters of Cinema edition of Sunrise (1927), with both the domestic Movietone soundtrack version (with optional Olympia Chamber Orchestra score) and the Czech silent version.
Grapevine Video (USA) has released their NTSC DVD double feature edition of Sappho (1921) starring Pola Negri and Backstairs (1921) starring Henny Porten.
Kino International (USA) has released their NTSC DVD boxset Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913 (1897-1913). The three-disc set collects more than 75 films that focuses on the Gaumont productions of French directors Alice Guy, Louis Feuillade and Léonce Perret.
Sunrise Silents (USA) has released their remastered NTSC and PAL DVD-R editions of Ella Cinders (1926) starring Colleen Moore. The discs feature a new video transfer from an original color-toned Kodascope print. Also available is a digital CD-R edition of the August 1920 issue of Photoplay Magazine.
Unknown Video (USA) has released WhizBang, Volume 1 (1921-1928), a collection of the feature film Guardians of the Wild (1928) and three two-reeler action films.
Edition Filmmuseum (Germany) has released the first high-quality DVD edition of Die freudlose Gasse [The Joyless Street] (1925) starring Greta Garbo and Asta Nielsen. The 2-disc edition can only be viewed on PAL DVD players. A comparable NTSC DVD edition announcement should come soon.
Sunrise Silents (USA) has released their remastered NTSC and PAL DVD-R editions of Mantrap (1926) starring Clara Bow and Ernest Torrence. The disc features a new video transfer from improved source materials. Also released is a digital CD-R edition of the July 1918 issue of Photoplay Magazine.
All Day Entertainment (USA) has released their four-disc NTSC DVD-R collection Becoming Charley Chase (1915-1926). The collection covers Chase’s career from Keystone to Hal Roach, with accompaniment by Ben Model, the Snark Ensemble, Redwine Jazz, and the West End Jazz Band.
Warner Bros. Home Video (USA) has released their latest round of small-run DVD-R releases in their Warner Archive Collection. In the 16 June 2009 releases, seven more silent era titles are now available for direct-sale through Warner Home Video’s Warner Archive Collection website, including Beau Brummel (1924), The Better ’ole (1926), The Divine Lady (1929), The First Auto (1927), Old San Francisco (1927), The Sea Hawk (1924), and When a Man Loves (1927). Go to the site to vote on future silent film releases in the Warner Archive series.
Flicker Alley (USA) and Film Preservation Associates (USA) have released their next NTSC DVD collection, Under Full Sail: Silent Cinema on the High Seas (1922-1933), presenting the DeMille-produced feature The Yankee Clipper (1927) in its high-quality DVD debut, a lengthy 1922 feature-film whale-hunting exerpt, and three nautical short films.
Flicker Alley (USA) and Film Preservation Associates (USA) have released a new NTSC DVD collection, Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer (1916-1921). The digitally-mastered five-disc set features eleven of Fairbanks’ early films, including five previously unavailable on DVD. Note: A few DVD players have encountered problems playing some discs in this boxset. Flicker Alley has inititated a program to replace defective discs from this Fairbanks set. Click here to report defective discs.
Sunrise Silents (USA) has released their NTSC DVD-R edition of the final seven chapters of A Woman in Grey (1920) starring Arlene Pretty.