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Sawdust
(1923)

 

This circus drama, directed by Jack Conway, stars Gladys Walton and Niles Welch, with Edith Yorke, Herbert Standing, Mathew Betz, Frank Brownlee and William Robert Daly.

coverGladys Walton
2009 DVD edition

Sawdust (1923), color-toned black & white, 52 minutes, not rated.

Gladys Walton Digital Productions,
no catalog number, UPC 8-85444-17486-5.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 4.6 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $15.95.
Release date: 15 December 2009.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 3 / audio: 4 / additional content: 3 / overall: 3.

This poorly produced DVD-R edition has been mastered from a VHS videotape copy of a fair to good 8mm reduction print that is quite scuffed, with dust, speckling, and other defects including persistent frame instability. The older analog video transfer has a hard time holding image details in the highlight areas of the picture but the shadow areas remain open and reasonably well defined.

The film is accompanied by a music score compiled from preexisting music sources that are often abruptly edited together.

Not a great presentation but this is the only home video edition of the film we know of. This edition, produced by Gladys’ son John Walton, is now out-of-print and may be hard to find.

 
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