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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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The Thanhouser Collection
DVD Volumes 10, 11 and 12
(1910-1916) |
Contents: The Actor’s Children (1910), Young Lord Stanley (1910), The Pasha’s Daughter (1911), His Great Uncle’s Spirit (1912), The Portrait of Lady Anne (1912), The Voice of Conscience (1912), In a Garden (1912), Her Nephews from Labrador (1913), His Uncle’s Wives (1913), Seven Ages of an Alligator (1913), The Farmer’s Daughters (1913), [In de Tropische Zee] (1914), Joseph in the Land of Egypt (1914), The Center of the Web (1914), Zudora [Episode 2, “The Mystery of the Sleeping House”] (1914), Old Jane of the Gaiety (1915), In the Hands of the Enemy (1915) and Silas Marner (1916).
Presented as three volumes entitled, More Early Thanhouser, The Genius of Charles J. Hite, and Edwin and Gertrude Return, this is the latest collection of Thanhouser films, which includes the feature films Joseph in the Land of Egypt (1914) and Silas Marner (1916).
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 2009 Thanhouser Company Film Preservation edition
The Thanhouser Collection, DVD Volumes 10, 11 and 12 (1910-1916),
black & white and color-toned black & white, 384 minutes total, not rated,
including The Actor’s Children (1910), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, Young Lord Stanley (1910), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, The Pasha’s Daughter (1911), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, His Great Uncle’s Spirit (1912), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, The Portrait of Lady Anne (1912), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, The Voice of Conscience (1912), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, In a Garden (1912), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, Her Nephews from Labrador (1913), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, His Uncle’s Wives (1913), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, Seven Ages of an Alligator (1913), black & white, 4 minutes, not rated, The Farmer’s Daughters (1913), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, [In de Tropische Zee] (1914), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Joseph in the Land of Egypt (1914), color-toned black & white, 41 minutes, not rated, The Center of the Web (1914), black & white, 27 minutes, not rated, Zudora [Episode 2, “The Mystery of the Sleeping House”] (1914), black & white, 36 minutes, not rated, Old Jane of the Gaiety (1915), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, In the Hands of the Enemy (1915), black & white, 26 minutes, not rated, and Silas Marner (1916), black & white, 33 minutes, not rated.
Thanhouser Company Film Preservation Incorporated, no catalog number, no UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, three? single-sided, single-layered DVD-R discs, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo? sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $24.95.
DVD release date: 1 October 2009
Country of origin: USA
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Our first look at this collection of surviving Thanhouser films that have been mastered from prints held by world film archives. The video transfers range from very-good to excellent, from 35mm print materials.
