Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Joan the Woman
(1917)
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Cecil B. DeMille’s biographical portrait of Joan of Arc stars Geraldine Farrar, and features support from Wallace Reid, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts, Charles Clary, James Neill and Tully Marshall.
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 Flicker Alley
2015 DVD edition
Joan the Woman (1917), color-toned black & white and black & white, 137 minutes, not rated.
Flicker Alley, distributed by MovieZyng,
FA-MD3-013, UPC 8-89290-09117-8.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 13 May 2015.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 35mm reduction print and is likely to be of identical quality to its previous edition noted below.
The film is accompanied by a contemporary music score composed for the film by William Furst, performed on theatre pipe organ by Christian Elliott.
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 Film Preservation Associates
2001 DVD edition
Joan the Woman (1917), color-toned black & white and black & white, 137 minutes, not rated.
Film Preservation Associates, distributed by Image Entertainment, ID0509DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-05092-9.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 7.3 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 16 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $24.99.
Release date: 24 April 2001.
Country of origin: USA •
Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 7 / additional content: 0 / overall: 7.
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This DVD edition has been mastered from a very-good to excellent 35mm print, as originally produced for release in 1997 on laserdisc by David Shepard. The picture has a significant amount of frame jitters throughout the presentation, with a mormal amount of dust, speckling, scuffing, and other print flaws.
The film is accompanied by a the original music score composed for the film by William Furst, performed on theatre pipe organ by Christian Elliott.
This edition is now out-of-print, but has been rereleased by Flicker Allley in the nearly-identical edition noted above.
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 Passport Video
2007 DVD edition
The Cecil B. DeMille Classics Collection (1914-1926), black & white, 1622 minutes total, not rated, including Joan the Woman (1917), black & white, 137 minutes, not rated.
Passport Video, DVD-5090, UPC 0-25493-50900-0.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (five DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 2.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 16 chapter stops; double-wide five-disc DVD keepcase; $19.98.
Release date: 12 June 2007.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 2 / audio: 3 / additional content: 4 / overall: 3.
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This DVD edition has been mastered from a very-good 16mm reduction print that is a little flat in its greyscale range. There are shots in the video transfer that are low-resolution and have unmistakeable visible pixelation of the picture details, which is very distracting on large HD monitors. Action scenes are so pixelated that it is difficult to distinguish image details. This disc is best watched on a computer monitor instead, if at all.
The film is accompanied by a cobbled-together music score of preexisting orchestral recordings of marginal logical sense.
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Other silent era CECIL B. DeMILLE films available on home video.
Other WALLACE REID films available on home video.
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