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The Toll of the Sea
(1922)

This early Technicolor feature film was intended as a showcase for the relatively new color process, and featured a very young Anna May Wong.

2000/2005 National Film Preservation Foundation edition

The Toll of the Sea (1922), color, 54 minutes, not rated.

National Film Preservation Foundation, distributed by Image Entertainment,
NATD9706DVD (rereleased as NATD0918DVD), UPC 0-14381-97062-3 (rereleased as 0-14381-09182-3).
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, four single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 0, 6 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo and mono sound, English language intertitles (silent era films), no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, four cardboard wrapped plastic trays with 150-page book of program notes (rereleased with four smaller bookets) in cardboard slipcase, $99.99 (rereleased at $69.95).
DVD release date: 3 October 2000 (rereleased 10 May 2005).
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 9 / audio: 8 / additional content: 3 / overall: 8.

The red-green color process film is stunning in this 1985 restoration, transferred full-frame from a 35mm preservation print prepared from the original 35mm nitrate Technicolor camera negatives. The final minutes of the film have not survived, but have been implied here in intertitles drawn from writer Frances Marion’s scenario and by new footage of the Pacific Ocean taken with an original two-strip Technicolor camera.

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 ANNA MAY WONG films available on home video:
Mr. Wu (1927)
Peter Pan (1924)
Piccadilly (1929)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

Other silent era TECHNICOLOR films available on home video:
Ben-Hur (1925)
The Black Pirate (1926)
Campus Vamp (1928)
The King of Kings (1927)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Redskin (1929)
Seven Chances (1925)
The Toy Shop (1928)

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