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La coquille et le
clergyman
(1928)

2005 Kino International edition

La coquille et le clergyman (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated,
with 24 other films.

Kino International, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, two single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, English language subtitles (selected films), chapter stops, keep case, $29.95.
DVD release date: 2 August 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This avant-garde collection contains one of the best presentations of La coquille et le clergyman (1928) available on home video.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.

Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

2005 Risqué Cinema edition

La coquille et le clergyman (1928), black & white, 28 minutes, not rated,
with Le ballet mécanique (1924), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, Entr’acte (1924), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, and Anémic cinéma (1926), black & white, 5 minutes, not rated.

Risqué Cinema, RC003, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD 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, 1 chapter stop, keep case, $24.95.
DVD release date: 26 April 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This subpar collection offers a video transfer of La coquille et le clergyman (1928) that has been prepared from a fair to good 16mm reduction print, which is soft of image detail, contrasty, with plugged-up shadows and blasted-out highlights, moderately speckled and dusty, and marked with a few vertical scratches.

The film is presented with, what appears to be, a custom music score performed on a synthesizer.

We recommend by-passing this release in favor of the Kino disc noted above.

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

Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other FRENCH silent era films available on home video.

Other silent era avant-garde films available on home video:
Anémic cinéma (1926)
Anthology of Surreal Cinema, Volume 1 (1924-1928)
Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and ’30s (1921-1947)
Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema, 1928-1954 (1928-1954)
Le ballet mécanique (1924)
The Crazy Ray (1923)
Entr’acte (1924)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
La folie du Docteur Tube (1915)
Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film (1894-1947)

Other historical silent era film collections on home video:
Biograph Productions, Volume 1 (1896-1905)
Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers (1895-1910)
Electric Edwardians: The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon (1900-1906)
More Treasures from American Film Archives (1894-1931)
The Movies Begin (1894-1913)
The Origins of Film (1900-1926)
Treasures from American Film Archives (1893-1960)

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