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Fantômas
(1913)

Louis Feuillade’s three-part crime serial stars René Navarre as Fantômas.

2006 Artificial Eye edition

Fantômas (1913), black & white, 335 minutes, classification PG.

Artificial Eye, ART 299 DVD, UPC 5-021866-299303.
Full-frame 4:3 PAL, two single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 2, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, French language intertitles, English language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, £29.99.
DVD release date: 20 February 2006.
Country of origin: United Kingdom

This edition may be effectively identical to the Gaumont edition noted below. The discs also contain an introduction by Kim Newman, a Feuillade biography, and an image gallery.

United Kingdom: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 2 PAL DVD of this edition from Amazon.co.uk.

2000 Gaumont International edition

Fantômas (1913), black & white, 335 minutes, not rated.

Gaumont Columbia Tristar Home Video,
unknown catalog number, UPC 3-333297-870658.
Full-frame 4:3 PAL, two single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 2, Dolby Digital 1.0 mono sound, French language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, plastic trays in cardboard wrappers in storage slipcase, €54,99.
DVD release date: 20 March 2000.
Country of origin: France

This out-of-print edition, mastered from 35mm elements, has been restored by Gaumont and La Cinématheque Française.

This Region 2 PAL DVD may be ordered directly from Gaumont.

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