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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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Are Parents People?
(1925) |
This comedy-drama from Paramount Pictures features the charming Betty Bronson, with Adolphe Menjou and Florence Vidor as her divorcing parents.
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 2003 Grapevine Video edition
Are Parents People? (1925), black & white, 65 minutes, not rated,
with Wedding Bells (1924), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, no UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD-R disc, Region 0, 5.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 224 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 6 chapter stops, keep case, $16.95 (reduced to $14.95).
DVD release date: 2003.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 5 / audio: 5 / additional content: 7 / overall: 5.
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This budget edition has been mastered from a good-to-very-good 16mm reduction print. While the print is not great — since it is lacking in fine image detail, has plugged-up shadows and some moderately modulated exposure fluctuations, and is dusty and speckled — it is watchable and the charm of the film comes through. The disc does benefit slightly from a smoothing of its coarseness on high-definition systems that upscale to a 1080p signal.
