Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Daddy-Long-Legs
(1919)
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Directed by Marshall Neilan, this comedy stars Mary Pickford and features Milla Davenport, Percy Haswell, Fay Lemport and Mahlon Hamilton.
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 The Milestone Collection
1999 DVD edition
Daddy-Long-Legs (1919), color-tinted black & white, 85 minutes, not rated,
with What the Daisy Said (1910), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated.
Milestone Film & Video, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID5923MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-59232-0.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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; English intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 14 chapter stops; snapper DVD case; $29.99.
Release date: 23 November 1999.
Country of origin: USA
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This early DVD edition has been mastered from 35mm print materials. The DVD also includes the Mary Pickford short film What the Daisy Said (1910).
The DVD features a new chamber orchestra music score by Maria Newman (beware!).
This is a fine silent film on DVD, and is recommnded if you can find it today.
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Other silent era MARY PICKFORD films available on home video.
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Mary Pickford filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List
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