Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Early
Bird
(1925)
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This comedy, directed by Charles Hines, stars Johnny Hines and Sigrid Holmquist, with Wyndham Standing, Edmund Breese, Maude Turner Gordon, Bradley Barker and Flora Finch.
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 Grapevine Video
2003 DVD edition
The Early Bird (1925), black & white, 79 minutes, not rated, with Chasing the Chaser (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Alpine Antics (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10087-1.
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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: 2003.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.
Supplemental material includes a James Finlayson comedy short and a Disney Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
The Early Bird (1925), black & white, 79 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 JOHNNY HINES films available on home video.
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