Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Different from
the Others
(1919)
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 Kino on Video
2004 DVD edition
Different from the Others (1919), black & white, 50 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K391, UPC 7-38329-03912-7.
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; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 14 December 2004.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition presents this early Conrad Veidt film in a video transfer prepared from a 35mm restoration print held by the Filmmuseum München, pieced together from an incomplete print and still photographs. Missing intertitles and storyline are reconstructed from German censorship records.
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 Edition Filmmuseum
2006 DVD edition
Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (1919), black & white, 51 minutes, not rated,
with Gesetze der Liebe: Schuldlos geächtet! (1927), black & white, 40 minutes, not rated.
Edition Filmmuseum, 02, UPC/EAN 4-260100-330025.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL 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, optional English, French, Spanish and Portuguese language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; €19,95 (reduced to €16,76).
Release date: September 2006 (expanded and reissued July 2007).
Country of origin: Germany
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This PAL DVD edition has been produced by Filmmuseum München and the Goethe-Institut, München, from a 35mm restoration print held by the Filmmuseum München, pieced together from an incomplete print and still photographs. Missing intertitles and storyline are reconstructed from German censorship records.
The film is presented with an improvised piano score performed by Joachim Bärenz. Gesetze der Liebe (1927) is presented with a music score by Bernd Schultheis.
The second edition of this disc adds DVD-ROM supplemental material (in German), including original documents by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, and correspondence between Richard Oswald and Veit Harlan.
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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 Harpodeon
2009 DVD edition
Different from the Others (1919), black & white, 29 minutes, not rated,
with Salomé (1922), black & white, 32 minutes, not rated.
Harpodeon, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
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; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $6.99.
Release date: 31 December 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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This budget DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print of the 1927 two-reel abridgement known as The Laws of Love: Innocent But Outlawed.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from HARPODEON.
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Other silent era CONRAD VEIDT films available on home video.
Other GERMAN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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