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The Crazy Ray
(1923)
on

2000 Image Entertainment edition

Paris endormi [The Crazy Ray] (1923), color-toned black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, with The Bells (1926), color-toned black & white, 68 minutes, not rated.

Image Entertainment, ID5832DSDVD, 0-14381-58322-9.
Windowboxed 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 5 chapter stops, snapper case, $24.99.
DVD release date: 28 March 2000.
Country of origin: USA

Our first look at this presentation of Rene Clair’s short science fiction film reveals a slightly-windowboxed video transfer of a very-good to excellent 35mm American release print (under the title At 3:25, noted as “edited” by Morrie Ryskind).

The film is accompanied by what appears to be the synchronized orchestral music score from a sound rerelease of the film (likely the print noted above).

 

   

 
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Other French silent era films available on DVD home video:
Anémic cinéma (1926)
Au secours! (1924)
Ballerinas in Hell: A Georges Méliès Album (1898-1912)
Le ballet mécanique (1924)
Captain Fracasse (1928)
The Chess Player (1927)
Un chien Andalou (1929)
The Comedy of Max Linder (1907-1913)
La coquille et le clergyman (1928)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1925)
Entr’acte (1924)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
La folie du Docteur Tube (1915)
Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913) (1896-1953)
The Italian Straw Hat (1928)
Judex (1916-1917)
Landmarks of Early Film, Volume 1 (1904-1908)
Laugh with Max Linder (1908-1921)
The Lumière Brothers’ First Films
The Magic of Méliès (1904-1908)
Méliès the Magician (1898-1997)
The Movies Begin (1894-1913)
Napoléon (1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
La roue (1922)
La terre (1921)
Les vampires (1915-1916)

Other silent era avant-garde films available on DVD home video:
Anémic cinéma (1926)
Anthology of Surreal Cinema, Volume 1 (1924-1928)
Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and ’30s (1921-1947)
Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema, 1928-1954 (1928-1954)
Le ballet mécanique (1924)
La coquille et le clergyman (1928)
Entr’acte (1924)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
La folie du Docteur Tube (1915)
Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film (1894-1947)
 
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