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Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm
(1917)

St. Clair Vision
2008 DVD edition

Mary Pickford Collection (1917-1925), black & white, 297 minutes total, not rated, including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), black & white, 69 minutes, not rated.

St. Clair Vision, COLVD81709, UPC 7-77966-81709-5.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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), 2.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 448 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 8 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; unknown suggested retail price.
Release date: 15 April 2008.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 4 / additional content: 5 / overall: 4.

This low-budget DVD collection of four Pickford films contains an edition of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, coarsely mastered from a substandard video transfer that appears to have utlized a 16mm reduction print, which looks bad enough on standard televisions and horrible on HD monitors. The transfer is rife with artifacts that are plainly seen in intertitles, and make the picture itself ill-defined. Easily the worst-looking film in the collection.

The film is presented with a music score cobbled-together from preexisting recordings.

This is not at all a recommended edition of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm on DVD home video.

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