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La Cigarette
(1919)
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 Flicker Alley
2017 Blu-ray Disc / DVD edition
Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology (1902-1943), black & white, 652 minutes total, not rated,
including La Cigarette (1919), color-tinted black & white, 50 minutes, not rated.
Flicker Alley, FA0052, UPC 6-17311-68529-3.
Three single-sided, dual-layered, Region A Blu-ray Discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) progressive scan AVC (MPEG-4) format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Mbps audio bit rate, DTS-HD Master Audio? 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; and three single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs, 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 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; two three-disc BD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $69.99.
Release date: 9 May 2017.
Country of origin: USA
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This Blu-ray Disc/DVD edition has been mastered from a very-good to excellent 35mm print and produced for home video by David Shepard, Serge Bromberg, Jeffery Masino and Joshua Morrison. The source material shows quite a bit of active nitrate decomposition.
The film is accompanied by a music score by Judith Rosenberg.
The collection’s supplementary material includes a booklet essay by film historian and Women Film Pioneers Project Manager Kate Saccone.
While several of these films have appeared in earlier home video editions, the appeal of this collection will be the retrospective context of the collection and the updated, high-definition video transfers. A highly recommended collection.
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Other silent era films by WOMEN DIRECTORS available on home video.
Other FRENCH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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