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People on Sunday
(1929)

The original nitrate negative of People on Sunday (1929) is presumed lost, and no complete copy of the film exists. The film was reconstructed by the Nederlands Filmmuseum, and their restoration version contains scenes missing from other surviving prints of the film.

2005 BFI Video Publishing edition

People on Sunday (1929), black & white, 73 minutes, classification E,
with This Year – London (1951), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated.

BFI Video Publishing, BFIVD648, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 PAL, one single-sided, dual-layered? DVD disc, Region 2, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English? language intertitles, no? foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, £19.99.
DVD release date: 25 April 2005.
Country of origin: England

This edition utilizes the Nederlands Filmmuseum reconstruction version for its source materials, features a new music score by Elena Kats-Chernin, and includes a 12-page booklet of information about the film, with notes by film historian Philip Kemp.

The disc also includes This Year — London (1951), a British short film that documents the annual holiday outing of the employees of a Leicester-based shoe factory.

 
United Kingdom: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 2 PAL DVD of this edition from Amazon.co.uk.
Other GERMAN silent era films available on home video.
 
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