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A Florida Enchantment
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Sidney Drew directed and stars in this fantasy gender-bending comedy of role reversals in a St. Augustine, Florida, resort community.
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 2008 Harpodeon edition
A Florida Enchantment (1914), black & white, 70 minutes total, not rated.
Harpodeon, 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 mono? sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $19.99.
DVD release date: 17 July 2008.
Country of origin: USA
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This edition, from an unknown home video company, may be transferred from quality 35mm materials — but, our instinct tells us it is more likely to have been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com. |
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Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca. |
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 2001 The Library of Congress
Smithsonian Video edition
A Florida Enchantment (1914), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated,
with The Enchanted Drawing (1900), Fun in a Bakery Shop (1902), Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906), The Narrow Road (1912), A House Divided (1913), How Men Propose (1913), Matrimony’s Speed Limit (1913), The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914), Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915), Dreamy Dud: He Resolves Not to Smoke (1915), Keeping Up with the Joneses: Women’s Styles (1915), Keeping Up with the Joneses: Men’s Styles (1915), The Phable of a Busted Romance (1916), Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge (1916), Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (1916), Krazy Kat — Bugologist (1916), Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse at the Circus (1916), Mr. Nobody Holme: He Buys a Jitney (1916), Never Again! (1916), The Phable of the Phat Woman (1916), The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy (1917), Mary and Gretel (1917), The Katzenjammer Kids: Police and Pie (1918), W.S.S. Thriftettes (1918), A.W.O.L.; or, All Wrong Old Laddiebuck (1919), Us Fellers: Dud Leaves Home (1919), Within Our Gates (1920), The Centaurs (1921), Gertie on Tour (1921), Too Wise Wives (1921), Sissle and Blake (1923) and The Scar of Shame (1927), 560 minutes boxset total.
The Library of Congress/Smithsonian Video, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID9807UMDVD, UPC 0-14381-98072-1.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, three 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 language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, three cardboard wrapped plastic trays in cardboard slipcase?, $79.99.
DVD release date: 13 March 2001.
Country of origin: USA
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This 34-film collection, culled largely from the film archive of the Library of Congress, is grouped into sections entitled “Origins of the Gangster Film,” “Origins of the Fantasy Feature,” “Origins of American Animation,” “America’s First Women Filmmakers” and “The African-American Cinema.” Many of the films are transferred from preservation prints copied from nitrate prints and copyright registration paper prints. The quality is generally very-good, as is the source print for A Florida Enchantment, which we have viewed in the boxset’s previous laserdisc incarnation. Accompanied by a piano score, the full-frame video transfer captures much of the surviving image detail, but some highlights are nearly blasted-out to white. Overall, quite watchable and quite likely to be the best available DVD edition of the film. Unfortunately, this DVD boxset is out-of-print.
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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Other silent era GENDER BENDER films available on home video:
The Clinging Vine (1926)
I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1920) |
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