Young Romance
(1915)
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In Young Romance (1915), Nellie Nolan (Edith Taliaferro) and Tom Clancy (Tom Forman) work in a department store, and both are dedicated fans of chapter stories in popular magazines, tales of the romantic adventures of society’s elite. Independent of each other they resolve to spend their savings to take a trip to a swanky resort in Maine, vacationing like the characters of their favorite stories. By some accident of fate they meet each other under the guises of society people and begin to spend their leisure time together. However, since Nellie is at the hotel under the name of a real society person, she soon learns that she is the ‘heir’ to a large inheritance. That’s where Count Spagnoli (Allan Garcia) steps in. Spagnoli, as genuine as a three-dollar bill, eyes Nellie for a little shake out. Things proceed in predictable fashion for the villain and the young couple in this story written by William C. de Mille. — Carl Bennett
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 2001 Image Entertainment edition
Young Romance (1915), sepia-toned black & white, 58 minutes, not rated, with Regeneration (1915), color-toned black & white, 72 minutes, not rated.
Image Entertainment, ID0510DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-05102-5.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 1, 7 Mbps average video bit rate, 224 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 11 chapter stops, keep case, $24.99.
DVD release date: 27 November 2001.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 9 / additional content: 7 / overall: 8. |
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 We suspect that the video transfer has been remastered for this DVD edition since the film’s earlier release on laserdisc and VHS videotape in the 1990s. The full-frame transfer holds a great deal of the source print’s fine detail and broad range of graytones. There is only a minor amount of speckling and scuffing to mar this otherwise excellent 35mm print from the private collection of Cecil B. DeMille. While this is not a major silent era film, the print is so wonderfully preserved that it is a pleasure to watch.
The disc features a great music score compiled by Robert Israel and performed by Israel on piano and Galena Golovnia on violin. One can imagine that the young lovers heard this pleasant music themselves during their amusing restaurant scene.
Overall, David Shepard has slightly improved the presentations of these two films he has packaged together for DVD home video. Excusing the decomposition in Regeneration, the excellent prints and fine musical accompaniments make watching these films an absolute pleasure. We highly recommend this disc.
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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