Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Exploits
of Elaine
(1914-1915)
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 Grapevine Video
2006 DVD edition
Pearl White: Queen of the Serials (1914-1924), color-tinted black & white and black & white, 103 minutes total, not rated, including The Exploits of Elaine [chapter 1, “The Clutching Hand”] (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10048-2.
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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles and French language intertitles (The Exploits of Elaine), no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 2006.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition of chapter 1 has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely to be accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Sunrise Silents
2004 DVD edition
Pearl White Films (1915-1916), color-tinted black & white, 76 minutes, not rated, including The Exploits of Elaine (1914-1915) [chapter 8, “The Hidden Voice”], color-tinted black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Exploits of Elaine (1914-1915) [chapter 9, “The Death Ray”], color-tinted black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Iron Claw (1916) [chapter 7, “The Hooded Helper”], color-tinted black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Sunrise Silents,
PWF1-N (NTSC) and PWF1-P (PAL), no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC format or PAL DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 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; $19.95.
Release date: December 2004.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm reduction prints.
The films are likely accompanied by music scores performed on MIDI synthesizer.
If you own a copy of this disc please consider loaning it to us to review for documentation purposes. We pay postage both ways.
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SUNRISE SILENTS has discontinued business and this edition is . . .
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Other SERIAL FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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