Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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So This is Love
(1928)
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This feature drama, directed by Frank Capra, stars Shirley Mason and William Collier Jr., with Johnnie Walker, Ernie Adams, Carl Gerard, William H. Strauss and Jean Laverty.
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 Sony Pictures
Home Entertainment
2024 Blu-ray Disc edition
Frank Capra at Columbia (1928-2024), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated, including
So This is Love (1928), black & white, 55 minutes, not rated.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
12709928, UPC 0-43396-63593-7.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Regions ABC Blu-ray Discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at ? Mbps average video bit rate; DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard BD keepcase in cardboard library box; $230.99.
Release date: 19 November 2024.
Country of origin: USA
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This Blu-ray Disc edition has been mastered from the best surviving archival materials.
The film is likely accompanied by a custom music score.
Supplemental material includes audio commentary by Stan Taffel and Bryan Cooper; and the full-length documentaries, Frank Capra’s American Dream (1997) by Kenneth Bowser, and Frank Capra: Mr. America (2023) by Matthew Wells.
For information regarding other films included in the boxset, see our Frank Capra at Columbia on home video page.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Regions ABC Blu-ray Disc edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Canada: Click the logomark to purchase this Regions ABC Blu-ray Disc edition from Amazon.ca. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
So This is Love (1928), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R 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 language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 201?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era FRANK CAPRA films available on DVD home video.
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