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Without Lying Down
(2000)

2003 Milestone Film & Video edition

Without Lying Down (2000), color and black & white, 55 minutes, not rated,
with A Little Princess (1917), black & white, 62 minutes, not rated.

Milestone Film & Video, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID1025MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-10252-9.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 1, 6 Mbps average video bit rate, 224 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 8 chapter stops, keep case, $29.99.
DVD release date: 11 March 2003.
Country of origin: USA

This edition of a documentary on writer and director Frances Marion, with narration by Uma Thurman and the voice of Kathy Bates, with appearances by Cari Beauchamp, Fay Kanin, Mary Lea Bandy, Martha Coolidge, Robin Swicord, Callie Khouri, Polly Platt and Leonard Maltin.

The disc also contains a full-length presentation of Mary Pickford in A Little Princess (1917) as supplementary material.

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.

Other silent era-related documentaries available on home video:
American Experience: Mary Pickford (2005)
Before Hollywood, There Was Fort Lee, N.J. (1964)
Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982)
Birth of a Legend (1966)
Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965)
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (2001)
The Chaplin Puzzle (1992)
Chaplin’s Art of Comedy (1966)
Chaplin’s Goliath (1996)
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years (2003)
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)
Clara Bow: Discovering the ‘It’ Girl (1999)
Discovering Cinema (1908-2004)
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler (1976)
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 Gentleman Tramp (1975)
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)
Victor Sjöström (1981)
The Way to Murnau (2003)
When Comedy Was King (1960)

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