Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Dangerous Females
(1929)
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Contents: Our Dare-Devil Chief (1915), Dangerous Females (1929) and The Stage Hand (1933).
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 Alpha Video
2013 DVD edition
Lost Comedy Classics, Volume 1 (1915-1933), black & white, 67 minutes total, not rated, including Dangerous Females (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6937D, UPC 0-89218-69379-2.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R 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 subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $6.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 26 February 2013.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm and/or 8mm reduction prints.
The films are likely accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting music sources.
We wouldn’t recommend this below-average disc but a couple of these films are available nowhere else on home video. And . . . were these films truly lost?
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
Dangerous Females (1929), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R 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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 201?
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 music recordings.
Seems like a high cost for a single film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
Other KEYSTONE comedy films available on home video.
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