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The Blue Bird
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2005 Kino International edition

The Blue Bird (1918), color-toned black & white, 81 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered? DVD disc, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $29.95.
DVD release date: 6 September 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This new home video edition, transferred from a preservation print from the George Eastman House film archive nitrate print, features a music score compiled and performed by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. Also included are exerpts from the Maeterlinck play.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

2005 Grapevine Video edition

The Blue Bird (1918), color-toned black & white, 74 minutes, not rated, with Behind the Screen (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, no UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD-R disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, PCM 2.0 mono? sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $16.95.
DVD release date: August 2005.
Country of origin: USA

Released virtually head-to-head against the Kino edition above, this Grapevine edition is reputed been mastered from the Museum of Modern Art restored print (we thought that George Eastman House held the only print).

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc is available from Grapevine Video.

Other silent era Maurice Tourneur films available on DVD home video:
Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915)
A Girl’s Folly (1917)
The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
Lorna Doone (1922)
The Pride of the Clan (1917)
Victory (1919)
The Wishing Ring (1914)

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