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SILENT ERA FILMS ON HOME VIDEO
Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
Copyright © 1999-2009 by Carl Bennett.
All Rights Reserved.
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Long Pants
(1927) |
What does that title refer to? Harry Langdon is something of a mother-coddled boy who is kept in old-fashioned short pants, commonly designating a boy who has yet to come of age. Yet Harry, a bookworm, is beginning to discover romance — in some of the wrong places.
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 2000 Kino International edition
Long Pants (1927), color-toned black & white, 58 minutes, not rated,
with The Strong Man (1926), color-toned black & white, 76 minutes, not rated, and Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926), color-toned black & white, 62 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K173, UPC 7-38329-01732-3.
Windowboxed 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-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, 12 chapter stops, keep case, $39.95 (reduced to $29.95).
DVD release date: 2000 (rereleased 2 September 2003).
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 5 / audio: 7 / additional content: 8 / overall: 7.
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This David Shepard-produced edition of Long Pants has been mastered from a very-good 35mm print that is overall a bit on the lighter grayscale range and a little blasted-out in its highlights. Highlight details, especially Langdon’s face, and hard to discern during the film. The windowboxed natural-speed video transfer is OK, but overall, image details are also a little soft, making viewing worse, likely due to a print that has been duped from other positive materials.
