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The Flapper
(1920)
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This feature is one of the few surviving films of actress Olive Thomas.
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 The Milestone Collection
2005 DVD edition
The Olive Thomas Collection (1920-2004), color-toned black & white and color and black & white, 145 minutes total, not rated,
including The Flapper (1920), color-toned black & white, 87 minutes, not rated.
Milestone Film and Video, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID0101MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-01012-1.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 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 5.5 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 448 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $29.99.
Release date: 26 April 2005.
Country of origin: USA |
This DVD edition of the semiobscure film The Flapper (1920) has been mastered from 35mm film elements.
The recent Timeline Films documentary Olive Thomas: Everybody’s Sweetheart (2004) is included on a second disc.
The disc features a small supplementary section of stills, interviews, and songs written about Olive Thomas.
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