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Reviews of silent film releases on DVD home video.
Copyright © 1999-2008 by Carl Bennett. All Rights Reserved.
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The Life and Passion of
Jesus Christ
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2003 Image Entertainment edition
The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ (1905), color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 44 minutes, not rated, with From the Manger to the Cross (1912), color-toned black & white, 70 minutes, not rated.
Image Entertainment, ID1917DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-1917?-?.
Full-frame 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, 7 chapter stops, keep case, $24.99. DVD release date: 8 April 2003.
Country of origin: USA
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This edition features a full-frame video transfer mastered from a very-good Pathécolor (hand-tinted) English language 35mm print, entitled Passion and Death of Christ, preserved by Haghefilm Holland and distributed by Lobster Films, Paris.
An early example of feature-length filmmaking, this epic (by 1905 standards) is unusually entertaining despite the stiff acting and tableaux posing.
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 religious films available on DVD home video:
Ben-Hur (1925)
Christus (1915)
From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
Joan the Woman (1915)
The King of Kings (1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
The Ten Commandments (1923) |
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