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Captured on Film
The True Story of Marion Davies
(2001)
on

2002 Milestone Film and Video edition

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (2001), color and black & white, 65 minutes, not rated, with Quality Street (1927), black & white, 111 minutes total, not rated.

Milestone Film and Video, ID1033MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-1033?-?.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 1, 4 Mbps average video bit rate, 224 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 16 chapter stops, keep case, $29.99.
DVD release date: 17 December 2002.
Country of origin: USA

The Timeline Films documentary Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (2001) gives a balanced overview of the previously maligned Marion Davies, who has recently been the subject of critical and fan reassessment. The documentary features narration by Charlize Theron and appearances by author Jeanine Basinger, author Fred Lawrence Guiles, critic Charles Champlin, Cari Beauchamp, actress Virginia Madsen, Bob Board, Belinda Vidor Holiday and historian Kevin Brownlow. The disc also includes a photo gallery (100 images).

 

 
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Other silent era-related documentaries available on DVD home video:
Before Hollywood, There Was Fort Lee, N.J. (1964)
Birth of a Legend (1966)
Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965)
The Chaplin Puzzle (1992)
Chaplin’s Art of Comedy (1966)
Chaplin’s Goliath (1996)
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years (2005)
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)
Clara Bow: Discovering the ‘It’ Girl (1999)
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006)
The Film Parade: A History of Early Cinema (1933-1947)
Forgotten Silver (1997)
Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny (1998)
The Great Chase (1963)
Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy (1962)
Kingdom of Shadows (1998)
The Last Diva: Francesca Bertini (1982)
Laurel and Hardy’s Laughing 20s (1965)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1982)
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon (2004)
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998)
The Man You Loved to Hate (1979)
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1997)
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde (1997)
Memories of the Silent Stars
Olive Thomas: Everybody’s Sweetheart (2004)
Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat (1977)
The Railrodder (1965)
Rudolph Valentino: The Great Lover (2006)
Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography (1996)
Silent Britain (2006)
Slaphappy: The Movie (2004)
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton at MGM (2004)
30 Years of Fun (1963)
Unknown Chaplin (1983)
The Way to Murnau (2003)
When Comedy Was King (1960)
Without Lying Down (2000)
 
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