Our first look at this budget edition reveals that it has been mastered from a VHS videotape copy of a sound-speed video transfer (which runs a bit too fast) from a 16mm reduction print, and is of fairly low quality. The picture is blurry and the grayscale range a little light, but the edition is watchable.

The presentation features a new music score by Paul David Bergel performed on synthesizers.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
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This cheapy edition of Midnight Faces (1926) has been mastered from a VHS videotape copy of a full-frame video transfer of a 16mm reduction print. The full-frame video transfer is too light. This edition looks even worse than the cheap edition from Alpha Video noted above. Also, a small, gray “cf” logo appears at times in the lower right-hand corner of the picture. This is supposed to discourage video pirates; which is funny, as this video transfer was likely ripped-off from some other video company for this DVD edition.

The film is accompanied by a disjointed selection of preexisting music recordings that are haphazardly assembled, regardless of the current action of the story.