Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Flapper
(1920)
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This feature is one of the few surviving films of actress Olive Thomas.
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 The Milestone Collection
201? DVD edition
The Olive Thomas Collection (1920-2004), color-toned black & white and color and black & white, 145 minutes total, not rated, including The Flapper (1920), color-toned black & white, 87 minutes, not rated.
Milestone Film and Video,
unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 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 foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $29.99.
Release date: 201?.
Country of origin: USA
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This reissued DVD edition has been mastered from archival 35mm film elements and should be of identical quality to Milestone’s original release noted below.
Supplemental material includes the Timeline Films documentary Olive Thomas: Everybody’s Sweetheart (2004); and a small section of stills, interviews, and songs written about Olive Thomas.
This edition is now out-of-print.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 1 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Canada: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 1 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.ca. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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 The Milestone Collection
2005 DVD edition
The Olive Thomas Collection (1920-2004), color-toned black & white and color and black & white, 145 minutes total, not rated, including The Flapper (1920), color-toned black & white, 87 minutes, not rated.
Milestone Film and Video, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID0101MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-01012-1.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 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 5.5 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 448 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $29.99.
Release date: 26 April 2005.
Country of origin: USA •
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This DVD edition of the semiobscure film The Flapper (1920) has been mastered from 35mm film elements.
The Timeline Films documentary Olive Thomas: Everybody’s Sweetheart (2004) is included on a second disc.
The disc features a small supplementary section of stills, interviews, and songs written about Olive Thomas.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 1 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Canada: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 1 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.ca. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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 Alpha Video
2014 DVD edition
The Flapper (1920), black & white, 85 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7460D, UPC 0-89218-74609-2.
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 August 2014.
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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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Canada: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.ca. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is also available directly from . . .
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