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The White Sister
(1923)
on

2006 Sunrise Silents edition

The White Sister (1923), color-tinted black & white, 108 minutes, not rated, with Mystery of the Double Cross (1917) [episode 5: “The Life Current”], color-tinted black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Kid’s Auto Race (1914), color-tinted black & white, 5 minutes, not rated, The Great Cheese Robbery (1920), color-tinted black & white, 3 minutes, not rated.

Sunrise Silents, TWSL-N (NTSC) and TWSL-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, chapter stops, keep case, $23.95.
DVD release date: 2006.
Country of origin: USA

Our first look at Sunrise Silents’ DVD-R edition of The White Sister reveals a faster-than-natural-speed windowboxed video transfer from a very-good 16mm reduction print. However, the source print is cropped moreso on the left side than elsewhere.

The disc features musical accompaniment performed on a MIDI-based synthesizer.

Also on this disc is Charles Chaplin’s second film, transferred from a good 16mm reduction print, a Krazy Kat cartoon, transferred from a very-good 16mm reduction print, a glass-slide gallery (25 images), the fifth episode of the serial Mystery of the Double Cross (1917), transferred from a good 16mm reduction print, a Lillian Gish photo gallery (32 images), and a trailer for What Price Glory (1926), transferred from a good 16mm reduction print.

We were happy to trash our old hard-to-watch VHS edition of The White Sister for this new DVD-R edition.

 

This Region 0 NTSC or PAL DVD is available directly from Sunrise Silents.
Other silent era Lillian Gish films available on DVD home video:
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1914)
Biograph Shorts (1909-1913)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
D.W. Griffith, Years of Discovery (1909-1913)
Intolerance (1916)
Orphans of the Storm (1920)
Romola (1924)
True Heart Susie (1919)
Way Down East (1920)
Lillian Gish filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List
 
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