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Carmen
(1915)
on

2001 Image Entertainment edition

Carmen (1915), black & white, 56 minutes, not rated, with
The Cheat (1915), black & white, 59 minutes, not rated, and Burlesque on Carmen (1915), black & white, 30 minutes, not rated.

Image Entertainment, ID9227DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-92272-1 .
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, $29.99.
DVD release date: 6 March 2001.
Country of origin: USA

We have not reviewed this edition of Carmen, however, we have viewed this edition, produced for home video by David Shepard, on laserdisc. The video transfer and music for this DVD are identical to that laserdisc edition.

Also included is Charles Chaplin’s spoof of the two other motion picture versions of Carmen from 1915.

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.

2006 Video Artists International edition

Carmen (1915), color-toned black & white, 75 minutes, not rated.

Video Artists International, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number .
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 0, ? 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, $24.95.
DVD release date: 28 March 2006.
Country of origin: USA

This presentation features the original Hugo Riesenfeld music score, based on Bizet’s opera, conducted by Gillian Anderson and performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other silent era Cecil B. DeMille films available on DVD home video:
The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
The Cheat (1915)
The Clinging Vine (1926)
Don’t Change Your Husband (1919)
The Godless Girl (1928)
The Golden Chance (1916)
Joan the Woman (1917)
The King of Kings (1927)
The Little American (1917)
Male and Female (1919)
Manslaughter (1922)
Old Wives for New (1918)
The Road to Yesterday (1926)
A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
The Squaw Man (1914)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
The Virginian (1914)
The Volga Boatman (1926)
The Whispering Chorus (1918)
Why Change Your Wife? (1920)

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