Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Mistaken Orders
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This B-studio feature, directed by the prolific J.P. McGowan, features Helen Holmes and Jack Perrin.
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 Alpha Video
2017 DVD edition
The Open Switch (1926), black & white, 50 minutes, not rated,
with Mistaken Orders (1926), black & white, 54 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7955D, UPC 0-89218-79559-5.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, PCM 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 16 May 2017.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.
Our copy of this disc will not play cleanly in any of the four Blu-ray Disc, DVD and laptop players we tried; we had trouble with four discs manufactured by Alpha Video in 2016-2017, which may indicate a formatting or duplication incompatibility on Alpha’s part.
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Other silent era J.P. McGOWAN films available on home video.
Other RAILROAD FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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