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Midnight Faces
(1926)

2005 Alpha Video edition

Midnight Faces (1926), black & white, 53 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Video, ALP 4686D, UPC 0-89218-46869-7.
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, 7 chapter stops, keep case, $6.98.
DVD release date: 29 March 2005.
Country of origin: USA

Our first look at this budget edition reveals that it has been mastered from a VHS videotape copy of a sound-speed video transfer (which runs a bit too fast) from a 16mm reduction print, and is of fairly low quality. The picture is blurry and the grayscale range a little light, but the edition is watchable.

The presentation features a new music score by Paul David Bergel performed on synthesizers.

 

  

 
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.
Other silent era FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN JR. films available on home video:
Dangerous Traffic (1926)
 
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