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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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Napoleon
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 200? Universal Home Video edition
Napoléon (1927), color-toned black & white and black & white, 139 minutes, not rated.
Universal Home Video [Europe], unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 PAL, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 2, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English? language intertitles, unknown foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, unknown suggested retail price.
DVD release date: 200?.
Country of origin: unknown
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We have not viewed this disc. And we believe it to now be out-of-print. However, the disc appears from time-to-time on Internet auction sites like eBay.
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 200? Vertigo edition
Napoléon (1927), color-toned black & white and black & white, 225 minutes, not rated.
Vertigo, unknown catalog number, 8-420172-038427.
Full-frame 4:3 PAL, two single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 2, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, unknown foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, unknown suggested retail price.
DVD release date: 200?.
Country of origin: Italian?
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| This Region 2 edition is presented on two discs and should render a far better picture than the overcompressed Korean edition noted below. This edition features the Kevin Brownlow restored edition presented by Francis Ford Coppola, with orchestral accompaniment by Carmine Coppola and pipe organ performance by Dennis James.
The two-disc set appears to be out-of-print.
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United Kingdom: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 2 PAL DVD of this edition from Amazon.co.uk. |
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 2004 Premier Entertainment edition
Napoléon (1927), color-toned black & white and black & white, 222 minutes, not rated.
Premier Entertainment, 2004-FDVD421, UPC 8-809097-758557.
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 stereo sound, English language intertitles, optional Korean and English language subtitles, 19 chapter stops, keep case, unknown suggested retail price.
DVD release date: 2004.
Country of origin: South Korea
Ratings (1-10): video: 5 / audio: 7 / additional content: 0 / overall: 5.
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 This South Korean edition popped up for sale on eBay in 2004, and is likely available via mail order from a South Korean DVD retailer. This edition features the Kevin Brownlow restored edition presented by Francis Ford Coppola, with orchestral accompaniment by Carmine Coppola and pipe organ performance by Dennis James.
Our review of this edition reveals a very-low video encoding bit rate that presents many, many video artifacts that will marginally be visible on smaller standard televisions and very, very visible on large HD televisions. Not really worth the money.
This edition is no longer available in the USA through eBay for copyright reasons.
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United Kingdom: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.co.uk. |
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Other silent era Abel Gance films available on home video:
Au secours! (1924)
La folie du Docteur Tube (1915)
J’accuse (1919)
La roue (1922)
Other FRENCH silent era films available on home video.
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