Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Star Prince
(1918)
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This feature fantasy drama, directed by Madeline Brandeis, stars Zoe Rae and Dorphia Brown, with John Dorland, Edith Rothschild, Marjorie Claire Bowden and Guinar Kheiralla.
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 Flicker Alley
2017 Blu-ray Disc / DVD edition
Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology (1902-1943), black & white, 652 minutes total, not rated, including The Star Prince (1918), black & white, 58 minutes, not rated.
Flicker Alley, FA0052, UPC 6-17311-68529-3.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region A Blu-ray Disc (three BDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at ? Mbps average video bit rate; LPCM 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 1.5 Mbps audio bit rate; English, French and Russian language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; and one single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc (three DVDs in the set); 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, French and Russian language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; 28-page insert booklet; two standard three-disc BD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $69.99.
Release date: 9 May 2017.
Country of origin: USA
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This Blu-ray Disc / DVD edition has been mastered from 35mm print elements, primarily from the Blackhawk Films collection and FPA France (Lobster Films collection), and features more than 10 hours of content. The collection, produced for home video by David Shepard, Serge Bromberg, Jeffery Masino and Joshua Morrison, contains 25 silent and sound films, with seven of them being feature-length films.
The films are accompanied by music scores by Sergei Dreznin, Frederick Hodges, Tamar Muskal, Judith Rosenberg, and Rodney Sauer with The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
Supplementary material includes audio commentary for The Blot by author and professor Shelley Stamp; and a 28-page insert booklet with an essay by film historian and Women Film Pioneers Project Manager Kate Saccone.
As the Blu-ray Discs and the DVDs are packaged in separate keepcases within the boxset, we think the consumer would have been better served by there being separate, and therefore less expensive BD and DVD retail offerings.
While several of these films have appeared in earlier home video editions, the appeal of this collection will be the retrospective context of the collection and the updated, high-definition film scans. A highly recommended collection. Out-of-print but well worth pursuing.
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This Region A Blu-ray Disc / Region 1 DVD edition has been discontinued and is . . .
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 Loving the Classics
202? DVD edition
The Star Prince (1918), black & white, 54 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.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era films by WOMEN DIRECTORS available on home video.
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