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Melodie der Welt
(1929)

 
coverEdition Filmmuseum
2008 DVD edition

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 65 minutes, not rated, with Melodie der Welt (1929), black & white, 48 minutes, not rated, Lichtspiel Opus I [Opus I] (1921), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Opus 2 (1922), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, Der Sieger (1922), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, Das Wunder (1922), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, Opus 3 (1924), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, Opus 4 (1925), black & white, 4 minutes, not rated, Das wiedergefundene Paradies (1925), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Der Aufsteig (1926), black & white, 4 minutes, not rated, Spiel der Wellen (1926), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, Dort wo der Rhein . . . (1927), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, Weekend (1930), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, and In der Nacht (1931), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated.

Edition Filmmuseum, 39, unknown UPC/EAN number.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 50 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; 20-page insert booklet; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; €29,95.
Release date: November 2008 (second edition, March 2009; third edition, October 2009; fourth edition, February 2010; fifth edition, August 2010; sixth edition, November 2010; twelfth edition, March 2016; thirteenth edition, November 2018; fourteenth edition, December 2020).
Country of origin: Germany
This PAL DVD edition has been produced by Filmmuseum München, Arte, Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv and the Goethe-Institut, München, from archival film elements.

The film is presented with its original orchestral music score composed by Edmund Meisel.

The disc supplemental material includes DVD-ROM supplemental material (in German), including original documents by and about Walther Ruttman, program booklets and original scores, with photo galleries; a side-by-side comparison of surviving prints of Melodie der Welt; an audio feature on Walther Ruttman (86 minutes).

This high-quality edition is recommended to all. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.

 
This Region 0 PAL DVD edition is available directly from . . .
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