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A Little Princess
(1917)
on

Based on the novel Sara Crewe by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this Mary Pickford vehicle is another of her early ‘poor little rich girl’ films that silent era audiences loved.

2003 Milestone Film & Video edition

A Little Princess (1917), black & white, 62 minutes, not rated, with Without Lying Down (2000), color and black & white, 55 minutes, not rated.

Milestone Film & Video, ID1025MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-10252-9.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 1, 6 Mbps average video bit rate, 224 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 8 chapter stops, keep case, $29.99.
DVD release date: 11 March 2003.
Country of origin: USA

Our first look at this home video edition of a documentary on Frances Marion also contains a full-length presentation of A Little Princess (1917) as supplementary material.

The film is presented in a full-frame video transfer with windowboxed still-frame titles on the majority of main titles and intertitles, which runs at slightly faster than natural speed. The source print is generally in very-good condition, with some sections of higher amounts of speckling and emulsion scuffing.

 

 
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 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)
The Little American (1917)
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)
Mary Pickford filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List
 
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