This MGM drama vehicle for star Lillian Gish and leading man John Gilbert was directed by King Vidor.
Warner Archive Collection
2010 DVD edition
La Bohème(1926), black & white, 93 minutes, not rated.
Warner Home Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-83316-22735-0.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 9 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase, $19.95.
Release date: 12 January 2010.
Country of origin: USA
This DVD-R edition is available directly from the Warner Home Video website, as originally prepared for release on laserdisc and for broadcast on Turner Classic Movies from a 16mm reduction print (thought to be the best surviving material). The full-frame video transfer crops out the shadowy edges of the cropped framing of the 16mm print, which cropped the original 35mm framing. Perhaps as much as 10 percent of the original picture is lost to cropping, but intertitles remain readable in full.
The film is accompanied by a modern music score.
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