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Tigris
(1913)

This early Italian feature film, directed by Vincenzo C. Dénizot, stars Edoardo Davesnes, Lidia Quaranta and Alex Bernard.

Grapevine Video
2018 DVD edition

Tigris (1913), color-tinted black & white, 54 minutes, not rated,
with Kidnapped in New York (1915), color-tinted black & white, 41 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 6-60845-44914-5.
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 5.8 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 30 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: July 2018.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 4 / additional content: 4 / overall: 4.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from an 8mm reduction print with a higher-than-normal amount of dust, speckling, schmutz, emulsion scrapes, sprocket damage, frame jitters and other flaws. The original source material copied for this reduction print had a substantial amount of print wear.

The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from abruptly-edited royalty-free MIDI files played on a synthesizer. We acknowledge the effort taken to present alternative music to the vintage recordings used so many times by Grapevine Video for their silent film releases. Sorry to say that this music can be distractingly annoying. It would be best to lower the volume during viewings to minimize irritation.

Not a great presentation but this is the only home video edition of the film we know of.

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