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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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Three Ages
(1923) |
Three Ages (1923) was Buster Keaton’s first feature length film for his own production company (he had previously starred in 1920’s The Saphead for Metro Pictures).
The film is a loose parody of D.W. Griffith’s historical epic Intolerance (1916), with its multiple era storyline: prehistoric, ancient Rome, and modern day. Three Ages was also planned as a shrewdly careful excursion into feature films. If audiences did not accept Buster in a feature film format, the film could be divided into three two-reel shorts and redistributed. And Buster did not disappoint his fans in this feature film. The prehistoric ‘baseball’ gag is worth seeing. — Carl Bennett
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 1999 Kino International edition
Three Ages (1923), black & white, 63 minutes, not rated,
with The Goat (1921), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, and My Wife’s Relations (1922), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K136DVD, UPC 7-38329-01362-2.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-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, chapter stops, snapper case (reissued in keep case, and in slimline keep case), $29.99 (reduced to $24.95).
DVD release date: 23 November 1999.
Country of origin: USA
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