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The Wrecker
(1928)
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This British railroad drama features the largest staged railroad crash in British film history, filmed with no less than 22 motion picture cameras.
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 Strike Force Entertainment
2009 DVD edition
The Wrecker (1928), black & white, 14 minutes, BBFC Classification U, with [Vintage Cine Kodak Services Trailer] (19??), black & white, 1 minute, not rated, Mid-Hants Railway: A Line Preserved (19??), black & white, 5 minutes, not rated, Iowa State Fair Staged Rail Crash (1932), black & white, 1 minute, not rated, Derailment (1944), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, and Impressions of a Train Wreck: Korea (1952), black & white, 4 minutes, not rated.
Strike Force Entertainment, 9971017, UPC 5-027626-101749.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL 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; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; £19.99.
Release date: 16 November 2009.
Country of origin: England
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This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from an extremely abridged 9.5mm reduction print. Despite low expectations, the image quality is very-good.
The film is accompanied by a music score performed on piano by Neil Brand.
The disc is supplemented with 74 minutes of railroad-related material and featurettes about the making of The Wrecker.
See the BBC’s webstory on The Wrecker.
North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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United Kingdom: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 PAL DVD edition from Amazon.co.uk. Purchase supports Silent Era.
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