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La Bohème
(1926)

 

This MGM drama vehicle for star Lillian Gish and leading man John Gilbert was directed by King Vidor.

coverWarner 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 0 NTSC DVD-R 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), 6.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 9 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95 (reduced to $12.99).
Release date: 12 January 2010.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition is 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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Other silent era LILLIAN GISH films available on home video.

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