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Silent Britain
(2006)

Originally broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Four on 31 May 2006, this documentary directed by Matthew Sweet and produced by David Thompson is an overview of the silent era British film industry.

Kino International
2007 DVD edition

A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929), black & white, 87 minutes, not rated, with Silent Britain (2006), color and black & white, 88 minutes, not rated.

Kino International,
unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc; 1.78:1 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; $29.95.
Release date: 2 October 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD edition features a British Film Institute and BBC documentary, directed by David Thompson, on British films of the silent era.

This is our recommended home video edition of the film for North American collectors.

This Region 1 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .

BFI Video Publishing
2006 DVD edition

Silent Britain (2006), color and black & white, 88 minutes, BBFC Classification E, with Cut It Out (1925), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E.

BFI Video Publishing, BFIVD728, UPC 5-035673-007280,
unknown ISBN number, EAN 5.03567E+12.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD disc; 1.78:1 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; English language intertitles, no subtitles?; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; £19.99.
Release date: 5 June 2006.
Country of origin: England

This PAL DVD edition features a British Film Institute and BBC documentary, directed by David Thompson, on British films of the silent era.

This is our recommended home video edition of the film for European collectors. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.

This Region 2 PAL DVD edition is available directly from . . .