Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Final Extra
(1927)
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This low-budget crime drama stars Marguerite de la Motte, Grant Withers, John Miljan, Frank Beal and Joseph W. Girard and was directed by James P. Hogan.
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 Alpha Video
2015 DVD edition
Just Off Broadway (1929), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated,
with The Final Extra (1927), black & white, 65 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7713D, UPC 0-89218-77139-1.
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 4.3 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 7 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 6 October 2015.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from an 8mm reduction print that is coarse in picture details. The video transfer is at times so dark in shadow details that intertitles can be hard to read.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting low-fidelity recordings.
This is truly a bad disc but it is also the only home video edition of the film that we are aware of.
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