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The Girl with
the Hatbox
(1927)
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Boris Barnet’s comedy, starring the attractive Anna Sten, is the story of a hat shop worker who shares her apartment with a poor student. A lottery ticket becomes the objective of a mad chase.
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 Film Preservation Associates
2004 DVD edition
Outskirts (1933), black & white, 96 minutes, not rated,
with The Girl with the Hatbox (1927), black & white, 68 minutes, not rated.
Film Preservation Associates, distributed by Image Entertainment, ID5955DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-59552-9.
One single-sided, dual-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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; Russian language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; 11 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $24.99.
Release date: 27 July 2004.
Country of origin: USA •
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This DVD edition of The Girl with the Hatbox shows a full-frame video transfer of a very-good print that has been transferred at faster-than-natural speed. At least one video master glitch is seen in the final DVD.
The film is accompanied by a low-fidelity soundtrack of small ensemble and electronic music transferred from the optical soundtrack of the source print.
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Other RUSSIAN and SOVIET FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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