Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Burning Daylight
(1928)
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This last silent version of Jack London’s novel stars Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon and Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams.
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 Grapevine Video
2009 DVD edition
Burning Daylight (1928), black & white, 71 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10358-2.
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), 7.0 Mbps average video bit rate, 384 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 12 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95 (raised to $16.95).
Release date: 9 October 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a good 16mm reduction print that is quite dark throughout the presentation.
The film is accompanied by a cobbled-together score of preexisting film music.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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