Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Beau Brummel
(1924)
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John Barrymore stars in this Warner Brothers historical drama with Mary Astor and Carmel Myers.
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 Warner Archive Collection
2009 DVD edition
Beau Brummel (1924), black & white, 128 minutes, not rated.
Warner Home Video,
no catalog number, UPC 8-83316-16770-0.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), 4.1 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 12 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95 (reduced to $9.99).
Release date: 16 June 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been transferred from a very-good 35mm print that features a broad range of greytones and good image detail. There is a sparce amount of dust and speckling, with some emulsion damage, brief scratches, and image instability. Our review player, capable of very-good upscaling of a standard NTSC signal, has some difficulty with this disc. Quick lateral movements reveal the coarse picture interlacing inherent in older DVD discs.
The film is accompanied by a fine modern orchestral music score.
We recommend this edition as the best available home video edition but the film is due for a remastered home video edition.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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 TeleVista
2007 DVD edition
Beau Brummel (1924), black & white, 81 minutes, not rated.
TeleVista, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 25 September 2007.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition may have been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.
Don’t expect much, other TeleVista products have been disappointing at best. Compare the running time of this disc to the Warner Archive edition above. That should tell you something.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.ca. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Other silent era JOHN BARRYMORE films available on home video.
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