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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 Little American
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This World War I drama from director Cecil B. DeMille stars Mary Pickford, Jack Holt and Raymond Hatton.
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 2007 JEF Films edition
The Little American (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
JEF Films, unknown catalog number, 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, 16 chapter stops, keep case, $14.95.
DVD release date: 27 November 2007.
Country of origin: USA
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 2007 Passport Video edition
The Cecil B. DeMille Classics Collection (1914-1926),
black & white, 1622 minutes total, not rated,
including The Little American (1917), black & white, 62 minutes, not rated,
with The Squaw Man (1914), black & white, 74 minutes, not rated, The Virginian (1914), black & white, 50 minutes, not rated, Carmen (1915), black & white, 57 minutes, not rated, The Cheat (1915), black & white, 59 minutes, not rated, Joan the Woman (1916), black & white, 133 minutes, not rated, A Romance of the Redwoods (1917), black & white, 90 minutes, not rated, Old Wives for New (1918), black & white, 72 minutes, not rated, The Whispering Chorus (1918), black & white, 81 minutes, not rated, Don’t Change Your Husband (1919), black & white, 79 minutes, not rated, Male and Female (1919), black & white, 115 minutes, not rated, Why Change Your Wife? (1920), black & white, 91 minutes, not rated, The Affairs of Anatol (1921), black & white, 117 minutes, not rated, Miss Lulu Bett (1921), black & white, 71 minutes, not rated, Manslaughter (1922), black & white, 100 minutes, not rated, The Road to Yesterday (1925), black & white, 105 minutes, not rated, and The Volga Boatman (1926), black & white, 120 minutes, not rated.
Passport Video, DVD-5090, UPC 0-25493-50900-0.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, five single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 1.0 mon0 sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, multidisc keep case, $19.98.
DVD release date: 12 June 2007.
Country of origin: USA
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2007 Vintage Film Buff edition
The Little American (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Vintage Film Buff, SIL4, 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, PCM 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $20.00.
DVD release date: 2007.
Country of origin: USA
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This multidisc budget edition has been mastered from a subpar 16mm reduction print that is short on image detail, with a video transfer that is flat and grayed out.
