Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Three
Musketeers
(1921)
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This 14-chapter serial, directed by Henri Diamant-Berger, stars Aimé Simon-Girard and Blanche Montel, with Henri Rollan, Charles Martinelli, Pierre de Guingand, Pierrette Madd, Jean Joffre, Jeanne Desclos, Édouard de Max, Claude Mérelle and Henri Baudin.
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 LCJ Editions
2016 DVD edition
The Three Musketeers (1921), black & white, 365 minutes, not rated.
LCJ Editions,
unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Three single-sided, dual-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 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; no French language intertitles, permanent French language subtitles; chapter stops; double-wide three-disc DVD keepcase in cardboard slipcase; €19,90.
Release date: 5 October 2016.
Country of origin: France
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This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from a reconstruction version of the film supervised by director Diamant-Berger’s nephew, Jérôme Diamant-Berger with Guillaume Diamant-Berger. It is unknown whether the restoration contains the original Max Handschiegl hand color engraving process sequences. By consumer accounts, this edition is identical to the TFI Video edition noted below.
The film is apparently accompanied by a music score, sound effects and voice-over narration (presumably in French). It appears that there are no English language subtitles.
Supplemental material includes a featurette on Diamant-Berger, “Le cinéma de Grand-Père” (70 minutes); featurette “Histoire d’une résurrection” on the restoration of the serial (52 minutes); and a photo gallery.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film. 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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France: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 2 PAL DVD edition from Amazon.fr. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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 TFI Video
2002 DVD edition
The Three Musketeers (1921), black & white, 365 minutes, not rated.
TFI Video, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Three single-sided, dual-layered, Region 2 PAL discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 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; no French language intertitles, permanent French language subtitles; chapter stops; double-wide three-disc DVD keepcase in cardboard slipcase; unknown suggested retail price.
Release date: 19 September 2002.
Country of origin: France
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This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from a reconstruction version of the film supervised by director Diamant-Berger’s nephew, Jérôme Diamant-Berger with Guillaume Diamant-Berger. It is unknown whether the restoration contains the original Max Handschiegl hand color engraving process sequences.
The film is apparently accompanied by a music score, sound effects and voice-over narration (presumably in French). It appears that there are no English language subtitles.
Supplemental material includes a featurette on Diamant-Berger, “Le cinéma de Grand-Père” (70 minutes); featurette “Histoire d’une résurrection” on the restoration of the serial (52 minutes); and a photo gallery.
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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This Region 2 PAL DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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Other FRENCH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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