Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Wedding Bells
(1924)
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Monty Banks wants to get married, but a building tenant has saddled him with a dog that his fiancée insists must go before she will walk down the aisle.
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Grapevine Video
2002 DVD edition
The Films of Monte Banks (1923-1924), black & white, 92 minutes total, not rated, including Wedding Bells (1924), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
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, 224 Kbps audio bit rate, PCM 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 2002.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition of the Monty Banks comedy is likely to be identical to the presentation reviewed below.
All of the films have been transferred from 35mm nitrate prints.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Grapevine Video
2003 DVD edition
Are Parents People? (1925), black & white, 65 minutes, not rated, with Wedding Bells (1924), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10016-1.
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), 5.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 224 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, no chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: 2003.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 7 / additional content: 5 / overall: 6.
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This DVD-R edition of the Monty Banks comedy has been transferred from what appears to be a very-good 35mm nitrate print that is riddled with splices. The video transfer is a bit dark, with closed-up shadow details, but is of higher quality than most of the Grapevine Video product due mostly to the source material.
The film is accompanied by a collection of 1930s jazz recordings.
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Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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