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From the Manger
to the Cross

(1912)
on

2003 Image Entertainment edition

From the Manger to the Cross (1912), color-toned black & white, 70 minutes, not rated, with The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ (1905), color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 44 minutes, not rated.

Image Entertainment, ID1917DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-1917?-?.
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 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 8 chapter stops, keep case, $24.99.
DVD release date: 8 April 2003.
Country of origin: USA

This edition features a windowboxed video transfer mastered from a very-good rerelease 35mm print, from circa 1919. The windowbox presentation allows the maximum amount of surviving image to be viewed on all television monitors.

The film is accompanied by a piety-evoking music score performed on theater pipe organ.

  

 

   

 
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 religious films available on DVD home video:
Ben-Hur (1925)
Christus (1915)
Joan the Woman (1915)
The King of Kings (1927)
The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ (1905)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
 
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