This DVD edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print. The video transfer is flatly rendered with grey shadows and light grey highlights. The coarse interlaced picture can be helped by playback systems that are capable of converting the interlacing to a progressive scan picture but some interlacing artifacts will still show in intertitles type. Most of the intertitles are windowboxed which partically cuts off the edges of text from time to time. There does not seem to be a reason for this as the action cinematography is presented full-frame. The print itself has a number of scratches, rough splices, frame jitters, emulsion scrapes, dust, speckling and schmutz.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack of compiled preexisting orchestral recordings. Some of the music is unnessarily syrupy.
The supplementary material is exclusively a section of “slides” that are, stupidly, nothing more than still frames from the video transfer.
We suspect that the Grapevine Video edition noted above is a better product than this.
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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 to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.ca. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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