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Broken Hearts
of Broadway
(1923)

2004 Unknown Video edition

Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923), black & white, 82 minutes, not rated,
with Hot Sands (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Unknown Video, no catalog number, no UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD-R disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $18.95.
DVD release date: 22 November 2004.
Country of origin: USA

This public-domain edition of Broken Hearts of Broadway has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print from the Blackhawk Films collection, and features an organ musical accompaniment performed by Bob Vaughn.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD-R of this edition from Amazon.com.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R is also available directly from Unknown Video.

2005 Sunrise Silents edition

Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923),
color-tinted black & white, ? minutes, not rated,
with Mystery of the Double Cross [episode 2: “The Masked Stranger”] (1917), color-tinted black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Making a Living (1914), color-tinted black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Felix in Hollywood (1923), color-tinted black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Sunrise Silents, BHCM-N (NTSC) and BHCM-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 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $21.95.
DVD release date: July? 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition from Sunrise Silents has likely been transferred from a 16mm reduction print and is accompanied by a music score performed on MIDI-based synthesizer.

This disc is available in Region 0 NTSC or PAL directly from Sunrise Silents.

Other silent era Colleen Moore films available on home video:
The Busher (1919)
Ella Cinders (1926)
Irene (1926)
Orchids and Ermine (1927)
Twinkletoes (1926)

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