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Tarzan the Tiger
(1929)

 

This serial adaptation of the novel Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs stars Frank Merrill as Tarzan.

Grapevine Video
2005 DVD edition

Tarzan the Tiger (1929), color-toned black & white, 266 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10013-0.
Two single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in windowboxed 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 8-bit 2.0 stereo sound; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 15 chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $24.95.
Release date: 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition of the late silent era Tarzan serial has been mastered from color-toned 16mm reduction prints.

The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack of preexisting recordings.

This is the best-looking home video edition of Tarzan the Tiger.

 
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Alpha Video
2006 DVD edition

Tarzan the Tiger (1929), color-toned black & white, 266 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 5178D, UPC 0-89218-51789-0.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 15 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $6.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 24 October 2006.
Country of origin: USA

This budget edition has also been mastered from from a VHS videotape copy of a natural-speed video transfer that has been masked by the bottom of the picture to hide the charactistic video mistracking that usually appears at the bottom of a VHS picture. The print is dark in places and OK in other, but it is the low-resolution of the source VHS videotape that makes this disc with its smeary picture details so hard to watch.

The film is accompanied by the silent serial’s original synchronized music and sound effects soundtrack.

This edition is not recommended. Alpha video producers would have been well advised to locate film-based source material and create a new video transfer rather than use old VHS tapes to master this disc.

 
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