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Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm

(1917)

2008 St. Clair Vision edition

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), black & white, 69 minutes, not rated,
with The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917), black & white, 64 minutes, not rated, with Pollyanna (1920), black & white, 58 minutes, not rated, and Little Annie Rooney (1925), black & white, 95 minutes, not rated.

St. Clair Vision, COLVD81709, UPC 7-77966-81709-5.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 0, 2.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 448 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 8 chapter stops, keep case, unknown suggested retail price.
DVD release date: 15 April 2008.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 4 / additional content: 5 / overall: 4.

This low-budget release of four Pickford films contains an edition of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, coarsely mastered from a substandard video transfer that appears to have utlized a 16mm reduction print, which looks bad enough on standard televisions and horrible on HD monitors. The transfer is rife with artifacts that are plainly seen in intertitles, and make the picture itself ill-defined. Easily the worst-looking film in the collection.

The film is presented with a music score cobbled-together from preexisting recordings.

Not at all a recommended edition, however, this is the only known edition of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm on DVD home video.

 
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 MARY PICKFORD films available on home video.
Mary Pickford filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List
 
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