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The House with
Closed Shutters
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The House with Closed Shutters (1910) is a D.W. Griffith Civil War short film on cowardice that accelerates the passage of time toward the end of the story through expository intertitles and subtle visual changes to the settings (and not-so-subtle makeup changes).
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 2002 Kino International edition
The House with Closed Shutters (1910), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated,
with In the Border States (1910), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, The Fugitive (1910), black & white, not rated, His Trust (1911), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, His Trust Fulfilled (1911), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Swords and Hearts (1911), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, The Battle (1911), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, The Birth of a Nation (1915), color-toned black & white, 187 minutes, not rated, Filmed Prologue to The Birth of a Nation (1930), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, and The Making of The Birth of a Nation (1992), color and black & white, 24 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K266, UPC 7-38329-02662-2.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, two single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 1, 4 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 24 chapter stops, keep case, $29.95.
DVD release date: 10 December 2002.
Country of origin: USA
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Our first look at this two-disc set reveals that this edition has been transferred from high-quality 35mm materials. The edition also contains seven additional short Civil War films directed by D.W. Griffith, including The House with Closed Shutters (1910), In the Border States (1910), The Fugitive (1910), His Trust (1911), His Trust Fulfilled (1911), Swords and Hearts (1911) and The Battle (1911).
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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 2005 Image Entertainment edition
Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film (1894-1947),
black & white, color-toned black & white and color, 1127 minutes total, not rated,
including The House with Closed Shutters (1910), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated.
Film Preservation Associates with Anthology Film Archives,
distributed by Image Entertainment, ID0592DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-05922-9.
Full-frame and windowboxed 4:3 NTSC, seven single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 0, 5 Mbps average video bit rate, 224 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo and mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $99.99.
DVD release date: 18 October 2005.
Country of origin: USA
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Appearing on Disc Four: Inverted Narratives: New Directions in Storytelling, The House with Closed Shutters (1910) has been transferred from a very-good 35mm print from Film Preservation Associates.
The film is presented with a music score performed on synthesizer by Eric Beheim.
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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 2009 Grapevine Video edition
D.W. Griffith, Director, Volume 6 (1910),
black & white, 117 minutes total, not rated,
including The House with Closed Shutters (1910), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, with Muggsy’s First Sweetheart (1910), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, A Flash of Light (1910), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, An Arcadian Maid (1910), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, The Usurer (1910), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Wilful Peggy (1910), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, The Modern Prodigal (1910), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, and In Life’s Cycle (1910), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, 10350, UPC 8-42614-10350-6.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD-R disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, PCM 2.0 mono? sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 1 chapter stop, keep case, $14.95
DVD release date: 18 June 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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The film has been mastered from a very-good 16mm reduction print. The film is presented with a score performed on digital piano.
This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R is available directly from Grapevine Video.
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