Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Daddy-Long-Legs
(1919)
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Directed by Marshall Neilan, this comedy stars Mary Pickford and features Milla Davenport, Percy Haswell, Fay Lemport and Mahlon Hamilton.
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 Edition Filmmuseum
2017 DVD edition
Kafka Goes to the Movies (1907-1921), black & white, 468 minutes total, not rated, including Daddy-Long-Legs (1919), black & white, 99 minutes, not rated.
Edition Filmmuseum, 95, unknown UPC/EAN number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc (four DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 50 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German, English, French, Russian, Italian, Czech and Hebrew language intertitles, optional German, English and French language subtitles; chapter stops; 28-page insert booklet; standard four-disc DVD keepcase; €39.95.
Release date: May 2017.
Country of origin: Germany
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This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from archival film print materials.
The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed on piano by Günter A. Buchwald.
Supplemental material includes Kafka Goes to the Movies (2002) directed by Hanns Zischler (55 minutes); and a 28-page trilingual (German, English and French) insert booklet with writings by Hanns Zischler and Stefan Drössler.
This is our recommended home video edition of this film. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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 The Milestone Collection
1999 DVD edition
Daddy-Long-Legs (1919), color-tinted black & white, 85 minutes, not rated, with What the Daisy Said (1910), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated.
Milestone Film & Video, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID5923MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-59232-0.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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 intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 14 chapter stops; snapper DVD case; $29.99.
Release date: 23 November 1999.
Country of origin: USA
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This early DVD edition has been mastered from 35mm print materials. The DVD also includes the Mary Pickford short film What the Daisy Said (1910).
The DVD features a new chamber orchestra music score by Maria Newman (beware!).
This is a fine silent film on NTSC DVD, and is recommnded if you can find it today.
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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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