Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Street
(1923)
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This experimental German drama, produced by Stern-Film Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung and directed by Karl Grune, stars Anton Edthofer, Aud Egede Nissen, Leonhard Haskel, Lucie Höflich, Eugen Klöpfer and Max Schreck.
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 Edition Filmmuseum
2025 DVD edition
Die Straße (1923), black & white, 80 minutes, not rated, with Dangers of the Big City Street (1923), black & white, 67 minutes, not rated.
Edition Filmmuseum, 129, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc; 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 ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; 16-page insert booklet; standard DVD keepcase; unknown suggested retail price.
Release date: January 2025.
Country of origin: Germany
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This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from archival print materials.
The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by Günter A. Buchwald and Frank Bockius.
Supplemental material includes a 16-page insert booklet with articles by Stefan Drössler, Eugen Klöpfer, Albert Sander, Louis Collier and Hans Spielhofer.
This is our recommended home video edition of the 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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This
Region 0 PAL DVD edition is also available directly from . . .
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 Grapevine Video
2017 Blu-ray Disc edition
The Street (1923) [American release version], black & white, 76 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R BDMV); 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; LPCM 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard BD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 3 February 2017.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered at 2K high-resolution from a print of the 1927 American release version of the film.
The film is presented with a music score by Christopher Congdon.
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This Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R) edition is available directly from . . .
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 Grapevine Video
2017 DVD edition
The Street (1923) [American release version], black & white, 76 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, 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; $16.95.
Release date: 3 February 2017.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered at 2K high-resolution from a print of the 1927 American release version of the film.
The film is presented with a music score by Christopher Congdon.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other GERMAN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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