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Silent Britain
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Originally broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Four on 31 May 2006, this documentary directed by Matthew Sweet and produced by David Thompson is an overview of the silent era British film industry.
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 Kino International
2007 DVD edition
A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929), black & white, 87 minutes, not rated,
with Silent Britain (2006), color and black & white, 88 minutes, not rated.
Kino International,
unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc, 1.78:1 aspect ratio image in letterboxed 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; standard DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 2 October 2007.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition features a British Film Institute and BBC documentary, directed by David Thompson, on British films of the silent era.
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 BFI Video Publishing
2006 DVD edition
Silent Britain (2006), color and black & white, 88 minutes, BBFC Classification E,
with Cut It Out (1925), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E.
BFI Video Publishing, BFIVD728, UPC 5-035673-007280,
unknown ISBN number, EAN 5.03567E+12.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD disc, 1.78:1 aspect ratio image in letterboxed 4:3 (720 x 576 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 mono? sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles?, chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; £19.99.
Release date: 5 June 2006.
Country of origin: England
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This PAL DVD edition features a British Film Institute and BBC documentary, directed by David Thompson, on British films of the silent era.
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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Other silent era-related DOCUMENTARIES available on home video.
Other BRITISH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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