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Berlin
Symphony of a Great City
(1927)
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 Film Preservation Associates
1999 DVD edition
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 62 minutes, not rated,
with Lichtspiel Opus I [Opus I] (1921), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated.
Film Preservation Associates, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID4673DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-46732-1.
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; German language intertitles (main titles only), no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; snapper DVD case; $24.99.
Release date: 11 May 1999.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 7 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.
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 Edition Filmmuseum
2008 DVD edition
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 65 minutes, not rated,
with Melodie der Welt (1929), black & white, 48 minutes, not rated, Lichtspiel Opus I [Opus I] (1921), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Opus 2 (1922), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, Der Sieger (1922), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, Das Wunder (1922), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, Opus 3 (1924), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, Opus 4 (1925), black & white, 4 minutes, not rated, Das wiedergefundene Paradies (1925), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Der Aufsteig (1926), black & white, 4 minutes, not rated, Spiel der Wellen (1926), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, Dort wo der Rhein . . . (1927), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, Weekend (1930), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, and In der Nacht (1931), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated.
Edition Filmmuseum, 39, unknown UPC/EAN number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 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, Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; €29,95 (reduced to €25,17).
Release date: November 2008.
Country of origin: Germany |
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This PAL DVD edition has been produced by Filmmuseum München, Arte, Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv and the Goethe-Institut, München.
The film is presented with its original orchestral music score composed by Edmund Meisel.
The disc supplemental material includes DVD-ROM supplemental material (in German), including original documents by and about Walther Ruttman, program booklets and original scores, with photo galleries, a side-by-side comparison of surviving prints of Melodie der Welt, an audio feature on Walther Ruttman (86 minutes).
This high-quality edition is recommended to all with a PAL disc player. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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This Region 0 PAL DVD edition is available directly from . . .
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