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The
Toll of the Sea
(1922)

This early Technicolor feature film was intended as a showcase for the relatively new color process, and featured a very young Anna May Wong.

National Film Preservation Foundation
2000/2005 DVD edition

Treasures From American Film Archives (1893-1960),
black & white and color, 642 minutes total, not rated, including The Toll of the Sea (1922), color, 54 minutes, not rated.

National Film Preservation Foundation, distributed by Image Entertainment, NATD9706DVD (rereleased as NATD0918DVD), UPC 0-14381-97062-3 (rereleased as 0-14381-09182-3).
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (four DVDs in the set); 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 6.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; four cardboard wrapped plastic trays with 150-page book of program notes (rereleased with four smaller bookets) in cardboard slipcase; $99.99 (rereleased at $69.95).
Release date: 3 October 2000 (rereleased 10 May 2005).
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 9 / audio: 8 / additional content: 3 / overall: 8.

The red-green color process film is stunning in this 1985 restoration, transferred full-frame from a 35mm preservation print prepared from the original 35mm nitrate Technicolor camera negatives. The final minutes of the film have not survived, but have been implied here in intertitles drawn from writer Frances Marion’s scenario and by new footage of the Pacific Ocean taken with an original two-strip Technicolor camera.

The film is accompanied by the original music score compiled for the film by Ernst Luz and performed on piano by Martin Marks.

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

Alpha Video
2011 DVD edition

Toll of the Sea (1922) color, ? minutes, not rated,
with Shifting Sands (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6620D, UPC 0-89218-66209-5.
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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 30 August 2011.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD edition of Toll of the Sea may have been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

The film is accompanied by a cobbled-together music score of preexisting recordings.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .