Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Now or Never
(1921)
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 New Line Home Entertainment
2005 DVD edition
The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, Volume 2 (1919-1930), black & white, 466 minutes total, not rated, including Now or Never (1921), black & white, 36 minutes, not rated.
New Line Home Entertainment, N8447,
UPC 7-94043-84472-0, ISBN 0-7806-5290-8.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC 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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, optional English and Spanish language subtitles; closed captions; 6 chapter stops; and one dual-sided, dual-layered (side A)/single-layered (side B), Region 1 NTSC 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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, optional English and Spanish language subtitles; closed captions; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 15 November 2005.
Country of origin: USA
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This two-disc DVD collection is mastered from 35mm restoration prints overseen by The Harold Lloyd Trust, which should represent the best-surviving prints of these seven Harold Lloyd shorts and feature films.
We fully expect that this collection will be the best-available editions of these wonderful films, and recommend it sight unseen.
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This Region 1 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
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 Kino on Video
2005 DVD edition
The Harold Lloyd Collection, Volume 2 (1918-1921), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 198 minutes total, not rated, including Now or Never (1921), color-tinted black & white, 40 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K431, UPC 7-38329-04312-4.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 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; 5 chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 13 September 2005.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition of Harold Lloyd films was produced for home video by Lobster Films, Paris.
The film is accompanied by a music score performed on piano by Donald Sosin.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition is available directly from . . .
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 Passport Video
2007 DVD edition
Smiles and Spectacles: A Harold Lloyd Treasury (1917-1947), black & white, 600 minutes total, not rated, including Now or Never (1921), black & white, 35 minutes, not rated.
Passport Video, DVD-5160, UPC 0-25493-51609-8.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (five DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 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; no chapter stops; double-wide five-disc DVD keepcase; $19.98.
Release date: 13 February 2007.
Country of origin: USA
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This budget DVD edition has been mastered from 16mm print materials of reasonable quality.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
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Other silent era HAROLD LLOYD films available on home video.
Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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