
Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
Copyright © 1999-2013 by Carl Bennett
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Now or Never
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2005 New Line Home Entertainment DVD edition
The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, Volume 2 (1919-1930), black & white, 466 minutes total, not rated,
including Now or Never (1921), black & white, 36 minutes, not rated.
New Line Home Entertainment, N8447, UPC 7-94043-84472-0, ISBN 0-7806-5290-8.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc and one dual-sided, dual-layered (side A)/single-layred (side B) DVD disc, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, English and Spanish language subtitles, closed captions, 6 chapter stops, two-disc standard DVD keepcase, $29.95.
DVD release date: 15 November 2005.
Country of origin: USA |
This two-disc collection is mastered from 35mm restoration prints overseen by The Harold Lloyd Trust, which should represent the best-surviving prints of these seven Harold Lloyd shorts and feature films.
We fully expect that this collection will be the best-available editions of these wonderful films, and recommend it sight unseen.
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com. |
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Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
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2005 Kino on Video DVD edition
The Harold Lloyd Collection, Volume 2 (1918-1921), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 198 minutes total, not rated,
including Now or Never (1921), color-tinted black & white, 40 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K431, UPC 7-38329-04312-4.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, two single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 5 chapter stops, two-disc DVD keepcase, $29.95.
DVD release date: 13 September 2005.
Country of origin: USA |
This edition of Harold Lloyd films was produced for home video by Lobster Films, Paris.
The films are accompanied by music scores performed on piano by Donald Sosin.
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
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Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca. |
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2007 Passport Video DVD edition
Smiles and Spectacles: A Harold Lloyd Treasury (1917-1947), black & white, 600 minutes total, not rated,
including Now or Never (1921), black & white, 35 minutes, not rated.
Passport Video, DVD-5160, UPC 0-25493-51609-8.
Windowboxed 4:3 NTSC, five single-sided, single-layered DVD discs, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, no chapter stops, five-disc DVD keepcase, $19.98.
DVD release date: 13 February 2007.
Country of origin: USA |
This budget edition has been mastered from 16mm print materials.
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com. |
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Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca. |
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| Other silent era HAROLD LLOYD films available on home video.
Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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