Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Cinderella
(1914)
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Produced by Famous Players Film Company, this fairy tale adapatation directed by James Kirkwood stars Mary Pickford and Owen Moore.
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 The Milestone Collection
2005 DVD edition
Through the Back Door (1921), color-tinted black & white and color-toned black & white, 89 minutes, not rated, with Cinderella (1914), color-tinted black & white, 53 minutes, not rated.
Milestone Film and Video, distributed by Image Entartainment,
ID1981MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-19812-6.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 8 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.99.
Release date: 3 May 2005.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 7 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.
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This DVD edition has been mastered from a very-good 35mm print, with some dust and schmutz, speckling, scuffing, minor scratches, momentary print deterioration, and frame jitters. Some shots in the source print, taken at the same time and at the same location, are very light. The film’s main titles and intertitles have been reset in English (using a silly typefont called Nickelodeon), which indicates that the source print may originate from Europe.
The film is accompanied by music composed by Donald Sosin, and performed by Sosin and Joanna Seaton.
The disc also contains the Mary Pickford feature Through the Back Door (1921) accompanied by a new ensemble music score by Robert Israel.
Overall, this is a good presentation — likely as good as it will get — and the disc is recommended.
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 Alpha Video
2015 DVD edition
Cinderella (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with Cinderella Blues (1931), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7640D, UPC 0-89218-76409-6.
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 foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 26 May 2015.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
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Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is also available directly from . . .
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Other silent era MARY PICKFORD films available on home video.
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Mary Pickford filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List
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