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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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Sumurun
[One Arabian Night]
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This early Ernst Lubitsch feature film was stars Pola Negri and Paul Wegener.
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 2006 Kino International edition
Sumurun (1920), color-tinted black & white, 103 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K516, UPC 7-38329-05162-4.
Full-frame 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, 17 chapter stops, keep case, $29.95.
DVD release date: 5 December 2006.
Country of origin: USA
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 This edition has been mastered from the 35mm reconstruction print prepared by the F.W. Murnau Stiftung, with L’Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna, and Národni Filmovy Archiv, Prague, under the direction of Enno Patalas, with the cooperation of Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, the George Eastman House, Gosfilmofond, the Library of Congress, and the Stadtmuseum-Filmmuseum of Munich. The film is presented with a music score composed by Javier Perez de Azpeitia.
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com. |
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Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca. |
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 2005 Sunrise Silents edition
One Arabian Night [Sumurun] (1920),
color-tinted black & white, 63 minutes, not rated,
with Mystery of the Double Cross (1917) [episode 4: “Kidnapped”], color-tinted black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, His Private Life (1926), color-tinted black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, and The Voice of Hollywood [No. 3] (1929), color-tinted black & white, 10 minutes, not rated.
Sunrise Silents, OANP-N (NTSC) and OANP-P (PAL),
no UPC number.
Windowboxed 4:3 NTSC or PAL, one single-sided, single-layered DVD-R disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, PCM stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 6 chapter stops, keep case, $23.95.
DVD release date: 22 November 2005.
Country of origin: USA
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 Our first look at Sunrise Silents’ DVD-R edition of One Arabian Night reveals a video transfer from a 16mm reduction print.
The disc features musical accompaniment performed on a MIDI-based synthesizer.
The disc also includes a Lupino Lane comedy (written and directed by Roscoe Arbuckle), transferred from a good 16mm reduction print, the fourth episode of the serial Mystery of the Double Cross (1917), transferred from a good 16mm reduction print, a short sound-film novelty featuring Reginald Denny, Bobby Vernon and Anita Page, among others, transferred from what appears to be a very-good 35mm print, a Pola Negri photo gallery (33 images), a glass-slide gallery (22 images), and an introduction to Pola Negri by Rich Olivieri.
This Region 0 NTSC or PAL DVD-R is available directly from Sunrise Silents.
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Other silent era Ernst Lubitsch films available on home video:
Anna Boleyn (1920)
The Doll (1919)
Eternal Love (1929)
Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
Das fidele Gefängnis (1917) with Trouble in Paradise (1932)
I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1919)
Madame Du Barry (1919)
The Marriage Circle (1924)
The Oyster Princess (1919)
The Wildcat (1921)
About Ernst Lubitsch:
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006)
Collections and boxsets that include silent era Ernst Lubitsch films:
Lubitsch in Berlin (1919-1921)
Other silent era Emil Jannings films available on home video:
Anna Boleyn (1920)
Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Madame Du Barry (1919)
Othello (1922)
Tartuffe (1925)
Waxworks (1924)
Other silent era POLA NEGRI films available on home video.
Other GERMAN silent era films available on home video.
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