Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The
Notorious Lady
(1927)
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This B-studio drama, directed by King Baggot, stars Lewis Stone, Barbara Bedford, Ann Rork, Earl Metcalfe and Francis McDonald.
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 Grapevine Video
2007 DVD edition
The Notorious Lady (1927), black & white, 74 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10289-9.
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), 7.0 Mbps average video bit rate, 256 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 18 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 2007
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 35mm nitrate print, which is closed-up in its shadow details, with some speckling and emulsion scratches.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting monaural recordings.
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 Alpha Video
2023 DVD edition
The Notorious Lady (1927), black & white, 75 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8510D, UPC 0-89218-85109-3.
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), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $8.98.
Release date: 31 January 2023.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition is likely to have been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.
The presentation is likely to be accompanied by a cobbled-together music score of preexisting musical recordings.
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