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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Collection
(1912-1955)
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Contents: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), When Quackle Did Hide (1920), Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride (1925), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (circa 1932), Soda Squirt (1933), Tales of Tomorrow: The Evil Within (1953) and Climax! Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1955).
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 Grapevine Video
2010 DVD edition
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Collection (1912-1955), black & white, 310 minutes total, not rated, including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913), black & white, 27 minutes, not rated, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), black & white, 74 minutes, not rated, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), black & white, 49 minutes, not rated, When Quackle Did Hide (1920), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (circa 1932), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Soda Squirt (1933), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, Tales of Tomorrow: The Evil Within (1953), black & white, 30 minutes, not rated, and Climax! Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1955), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10562-3.
Three single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R discs; 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 three-disc DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 26 April 2013.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm and/or 8mm reduction prints. The publisher does note that the prints utilized for the presentations of When Quackle Did Hyde and Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride are below their desired visual quality (which is saying a lot).
The silent films in the collection are accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting music recordings.
Supplemental material includes short films, a cartoon and television episodes with appearances by Sheldon Lewis, Margaret Phillips, James Dean and Michael Rennie.
For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films in this collection, see our Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912) on home video, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) on home video and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) on home video pages.
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Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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