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The Little American
(1917)
on

This World War I drama from director Cecil B. DeMille stars Mary Pickford, Jack Holt and Raymond Hatton.

2007 JEF Films edition

The Little American (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

JEF Films, 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, 16 chapter stops, keep case, $14.95.
DVD release date: 27 November 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This budget edition has likely 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.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

2007 Passport Video edition

The Little American (1917), black & white, 62 minutes, not rated, with The Squaw Man (1914), black & white, 74 minutes, not rated, The Virginian (1914), black & white, 50 minutes, not rated, Carmen (1915), black & white, 57 minutes, not rated, The Cheat (1915), black & white, 59 minutes, not rated, Joan the Woman (1916), black & white, 133 minutes, not rated, A Romance of the Redwoods (1917), black & white, 90 minutes, not rated, Don’t Change Your Husband (1918), black & white, 79 minutes, not rated, Old Wives for New (1918), black & white, 72 minutes, not rated, The Whispering Chorus (1918), black & white, 81 minutes, not rated, Male and Female (1919), black & white, 115 minutes, not rated, Why Change Your Wife? (1920), black & white, 91 minutes, not rated, The Affairs of Anatol (1921), black & white, 117 minutes, not rated, Miss Lulu Bett (1921), black & white, 71 minutes, not rated, Manslaughter (1922), black & white, 100 minutes, not rated, The Road to Yesterday (1926), black & white, 105 minutes, not rated, and The Volga Boatman (1926), black & white, 120 minutes, not rated.

Passport Video, DVD-5090, UPC 0-25493-50900-0.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, five single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 1.0 mon0 sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, multidisc keep case, $19.98.
DVD release date: 12 June 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This multidisc budget edition has been mastered from a subpar 16mm reduction print that is short on image detail, with a video transfer that is flat and grayed out.

The film is accompanied by a cobbled-together music score of preexisting recordings of sparce logical sense.

A disappointment in quality — are we to expect anything else from the budget video producers? — but watchable.

 

 

 
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

2007 Vintage Film Buff edition

The Little American (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Vintage Film Buff, SIL4, no UPC number.
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 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $20.00.
DVD release date: 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

 

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc is available directly from Vintage Film Buff.

Other Mary Pickford films available on DVD home video:
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918)
Cinderella (1914)
Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
Heart o’ the Hills (1919)
Little Annie Rooney (1925)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
A Little Princess (1917)
The Love Light (1921)
M’liss (1918)
My Best Girl (1927)
The New York Hat (1912)
A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
Sparrows (1926)
Stella Maris (1918)
Suds (1920)
Tess of the Storm Country (1922)
Through the Back Door (1921)

About Mary Pickford:
American Experience: Mary Pickford (2005)
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1997)

Other silent era Cecil B. DeMille films available on DVD home video:
The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
Carmen (1915)
The Cheat (1915)
The Clinging Vine (1926)
Don’t Change Your Husband (1919)
The Godless Girl (1928)
The Golden Chance (1916)
Joan the Woman (1917)
The King of Kings (1927)
Male and Female (1919)
Manslaughter (1922)
Old Wives for New (1918)
The Road to Yesterday (1926)
A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
The Squaw Man (1914)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
The Virginian (1914)
The Volga Boatman (1926)
The Whispering Chorus (1918)
Why Change Your Wife? (1920)

Mary Pickford filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List
 
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