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Lot in Sodom
(1933)
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This independent production (shot in Rochester, New York, by James Sibley Watson Jr. and Melville Webber) is a silent film companion piece to The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), which experiments with avant-garde visuals and minimalist narrative techniques.

2003 Image Entertainment edition

Lot in Sodom (1933), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with Salomé (1922), color-toned black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Image Entertainment, ID1995DSDVD, 0-14381-19952-9.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered? DVD disc, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, 192 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 5.0 surround sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $24.99.
DVD release date: 15 July 2003.
Country of origin: USA

This edition of the avant-garde short Lot in Sodom (1933) has been mastered from a 35mm print, and features a surround sound recording of the original music score.

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 Watson and Webber films available on DVD home video:
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) in Treasures from American Film Archives box set

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