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The Mender
of Nets
(1912)

The Milestone Collection
1999 DVD edition

Sparrows (1926), black & white, 107 minutes, not rated, with The Mender of Nets (1912), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated.

Milestone Film & Video, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID5958MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-59582-6.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 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 ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; no chapter stops; snapper DVD case; $29.99.
Release date: 5 October 1999.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 6 / audio: 4 / additional content: 7 / overall: 6.

This DVD edition of the Biograph one-reeler The Mender of Nets (1912), directed by D.W. Griffith, looks as though it has been mastered from an older video transfer, probably those utilized for the 1990 Image laserdisc The Griffith Biographs. The appearance of the films on DVD (both being slightly soft of image detail and a little flat, with greyish highlights) is virtually identical to the laserdisc.

For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .