Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Broadway Love
(1918)
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This feature drama, directed by Ida May Park, stars Dorothy Phillips and Juanita Hansen, with William Stowell, Harry Von Meter, Lon Chaney, Gladys Tennyson and Eve Southern.
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 Kino Classics
2018 Blu-ray Disc edition
Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers (1911-1929), black & white and color-toned black & white, 1710 minutes total, not rated, including Broadway Love (1918), black & white, 61 minutes, not rated.
Kino Lorber, K23411, UPC 7-38329-23411-9.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region A Blu-ray Disc (six BDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at 26.8 Mbps average video bit rate; LPCM 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 1.5 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; 80-page insert booklet; three double-disc plastic trays on cardboard wrap in cardboard storage box; $99.95.
Release date: 20 November 2018.
Country of origin: USA
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This Blu-ray Disc edition has been mastered from an archival print.
The film is accompanied by a custom music score.
Supplemental material includes audio commentaries by Gaylyn Studlar; an introductory featurette with contributions by Shelley Stamp, Cari Beauchamp, Anthony Slide, Jane M. Gaines, Karen Ward Mahar and Rob Stone (17 minutes); a featurette on Alice Guy-Blaché with contributions by Alison McMahan, Shelley Stamp, Jane M. Gaines and Anthony Slide (8 minutes); a Lois Weber featurette with contributions by Shelley Stamp and Anthony Slide (9 minutes); a featurette on social commentary with contributions by Karen Ward Mahar, Shelley Stamp and Anthony Slide (11 minutes); a featurette on the restorations of the films with contributions by Rob Stone, Geo. Willeman and Lynanne Schweighofer of the Library of Congress (11 minutes).
This will likely be the best home video edition of the film.
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
Broadway Love (1918), black & white, 60 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.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era films by WOMEN DIRECTORS available on home video.
Other silent era LON CHANEY films available on home video.
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