Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Traffic in Souls
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Produced surreptitiously at The Universal Film Manufacturing Company by social-minded filmmakers, this film sought to expose (and/or exploit) the white-slave underground in America.
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 Flicker Alley
2008 DVD edition
Perils of the New Land (1910-1915), black & white, 194 minutes total, not rated,
including Traffic in Souls (1913), black & white, 88 minutes, not rated.
Flicker Alley, FA0010,
UPC 6-17311-67389-4, ISBN 1-89396-738-7.
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), 7.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 20 chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $39.95.
Release date: 15 July 2008.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition has been produced in conjunction with David Shepard of Film Preservation Associates, who has previously released Traffic in Souls in earlier home video formats. Its debut on quality DVD is quite welcome. Traffic in Souls has been transferred from the only known 35mm nitrate material of the original domestic version.
The film is accompanied by a piano score performed by Philip Carli.
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Other EARLY FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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