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Sumurun
[One Arabian Night]
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This early Ernst Lubitsch feature film was stars Pola Negri and Paul Wegener.
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 2006 Kino International DVD edition
Sumurun (1920), color-tinted black & white, 103 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K516, UPC 7-38329-05162-4.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 17 chapter stops, keep case, $29.95.
DVD release date: 5 December 2006.
Country of origin: USA
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 This edition has been mastered from the 35mm reconstruction print prepared by the F.W. Murnau Stiftung, with L’Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna, and Národni Filmovy Archiv, Prague, under the direction of Enno Patalas, with the cooperation of Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, the George Eastman House, Gosfilmofond, the Library of Congress, and the Stadtmuseum-Filmmuseum of Munich. The film is presented with a music score composed by Javier Perez de Azpeitia.
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
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca. |
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| This Region 1 NTSC DVD is also available directly from Kino International. |
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 2010 Eureka Entertainment DVD edition
Lubitsch in Berlin (1919-1921), black & white, color-toned black & white,
and color and black & white, 581 minutes total, BBFC Classification PG,
including Sumurun (1920), color-tinted black & white, 103 minutes, BBFC Classification PG,
with I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1919), black & white, 45 minutes, BBFC Classification PG, The Doll (1919), color-toned black & white, 64 minutes, BBFC Classification PG, The Oyster Princess (1919), black & white, 60 minutes, BBFC Classification PG, Anna Boleyn (1920), color-toned black & white, 118 minutes, BBFC Classification PG, The Wildcat (1921), black & white, 82 minutes, BBFC Classification PG, and Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006), color and color-toned black & white, 109 minutes, BBFC Classification PG.
Eureka Entartainment, unknown catalog number (MoC97), unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 PAL, six single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 2, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, German language intertitles, optional English language subtitles, chapter stops, six slimline keep cases in cardboard slipcase, £49.99.
DVD release date: 25 January 2010.
Country of origin: England
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This edition has been mastered from the same 35mm restoration materials prepared by the F.W. Murnau Stiftung as for the 2006 Kino International edition noted above.
Among the supplemental material is a short essay on the film by David Cairns.
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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 2005 Sunrise Silents DVD edition
One Arabian Night [Sumurun] (1920),
color-tinted black & white, 63 minutes, not rated,
with Mystery of the Double Cross (1917) [episode 4: “Kidnapped”], color-tinted black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, His Private Life (1926), color-tinted black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, and The Voice of Hollywood [No. 3] (1929), color-tinted black & white, 10 minutes, not rated.
Sunrise Silents, OANP-N (NTSC) and OANP-P (PAL),
no UPC number.
Windowboxed 4:3 NTSC or PAL, one single-sided, single-layered DVD-R disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, PCM stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 6 chapter stops, keep case, $23.95.
DVD release date: 22 November 2005.
Country of origin: USA
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 Our first look at Sunrise Silents’ DVD-R edition of One Arabian Night reveals a video transfer from a 16mm reduction print.
The disc features musical accompaniment performed on a MIDI-based synthesizer.
The disc also includes a Lupino Lane comedy (written and directed by Roscoe Arbuckle), transferred from a good 16mm reduction print, the fourth episode of the serial Mystery of the Double Cross (1917), transferred from a good 16mm reduction print, a short sound-film novelty featuring Reginald Denny, Bobby Vernon and Anita Page, among others, transferred from what appears to be a very-good 35mm print, a Pola Negri photo gallery (33 images), a glass-slide gallery (22 images), and an introduction to Pola Negri by Rich Olivieri.
This Region 0 NTSC or PAL DVD-R is available directly from SUNRISE SILENTS.
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| Other silent era ERNST LUBITSCH films available on home video.
Other silent era POLA NEGRI films available on home video.
Other GERMAN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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