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SILENT ERA FILMS ON HOME VIDEO
Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
Copyright © 1999-2009 by Carl Bennett.
All Rights Reserved.
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The Chaplin Revue
(1918-1923) |
Contents: A Dog’s Life (1918), The Bond (1918), Shoulder Arms (1918), How to Make Movies (1918), Sunnyside (1919), A Day’s Pleasure (1919), The Idle Class (1921), Pay Day (1922) and The Pilgrim (1923).
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 2004 Warner Home Video edition
The Chaplin Revue (1918-1923), black & white, 288 minutes total, not rated,
including A Dog’s Life (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Bond (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Shoulder Arms (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, How to Make Movies (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Sunnyside (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Day’s Pleasure (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Idle Class (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Pay Day (1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Pilgrim (1923), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Warner Home Video, 34460,
UPC 0-85393-44602-4, ISBN 0-7907-9111-0.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, two single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo and mono sound, English, Spanish and Portuguese language menus, English language intertitles, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Korean and Thai language subtitles, chapter stops, cardboard wrap case with plastic trays in cardboard slipcase, $29.95.
DVD release date: 2 March 2004.
Country of origin: USA
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 Our first look at the discs reveals the high quality one would expect from video transfers utilizing 35mm prints and negatives from Chaplin’s own film collection. The detail and grayscale ranges are consistently excellent.
The disc includes the option to view the films in the Chaplin Revue form that Chaplin assembled for release in 1959 (including Chaplin’s overview introduction) or as the individual films themselves — appealing to collectors who want the individual films presented as closely as possible to their original form.
The supplementary material includes the unreleased Chaplin film How to Make Movies, the war bond comedies The Bond and [Harry Lauder] (1918), outtakes from Shoulder Arms and Sunnyside, informal momento films, introductions by David Robinson, stills and posters galleries, and trailers.
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com. |
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Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca. |
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