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Bright Lights
(1928)
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This cartoon short, directed by Walt Disney, features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
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 Walt Disney Home Entertainment
2007 DVD edition
The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1925-1929), black & white, 234 minutes total, not rated, including Bright Lights (1928), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated.
Walt Disney Home Entertainment, 52420,
UPC 7-86936-71634-4, ISBN 0-7888-7158-7.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame and windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 8.2 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate (music), Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate (commentary, selected films), and Dolby Digital (AC3) 5.1 surround sound encoded at 448 Kbps audio bit rate (documentary); English language intertitles, no subtitles; English language SDH subtitles; chapter stops; insert booklet; collectible pinback button; pencil drawings sample card; certificate of authenticity; double-wide two-disc DVD keepcase in steelcase; unknown suggested retail price.
Release date: 11 December 2007.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition features a selection of the surviving Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons that have been transferred from 35mm prints (and a few 16mm reduction prints). The early films are presented in windowboxed transfers, while the later films are presented in full-frame transfers.
The film is accompanied by an excellent music score by Robert Israel, performed by a small orchestra.
Supplementary material includes the feature-length documentary The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (2007) by Leslie Iwerks; animated original pencil drawings for the lost film Sagebrush Sadie (1928).
This edition is very hard-to-find these days but well worth the search. Highly recommended.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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 Loving the Classics
202? DVD edition
Bright Lights (1928), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, no UPC number.
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 ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 202?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
We sincerely question why this disc is being sold for fifteen dollars when it contains only one cartoon.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era WALT DISNEY films available on home video.
Other ANIMATION FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
Other silent film music scores by ROBERT ISRAEL available on home video.
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