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 1999 Image Entertainment edition
America (1924), color-toned black & white, 140 minutes, not rated.
Film Preservation Associates, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID4726DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-47262-2.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 0, 4.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 29 chapter stops, snapper case, $29.99.
DVD release date: 9 March 1999.
Country of origin: USA
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Our first look at this early DVD was a little disappointing, but understandably forgiveable. The disc was prepared in 1999 from the video masters produced by David Shepard for the mid-1990s Image Entertainment laserdisc edition. While the DVD bit rate is at a reasonable level, the resolution of the video master itself is low-enough that sharp-eyed viewers will note the horizontal interlacing of the video image in some shots and, in particular, in the intertitles. Those with HD televisions won’t miss seeing the interlacing at all. The overall result is a softer, less-detailed, picture that doesn’t fully do justice to the clarity of the surviving source print (very likely originating from the surviving print of the British version of the film, Love and Sacrifice, held by the 
