Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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What 80 Million
Women Want
(1913)
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This women’s suffrage drama, directed by Will Louis, features Ethel Jewett, Reginald Everett and George Henry, with Emmeline Pankhurst and Harriot Stanton Blatch appearing as themselves.
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 Alpha Video
2019 DVD edition
What 80 Million Women Want (1913), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8215D, UPC 0-89218-82159-1.
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 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 16 April 2019.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print. We do not yet know whether this edition is of better quality than the substandard Film Classics edition noted below.
This disc may be of sufficient quality to be watchable . . . but, then again, it may not.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is also available directly from . . .
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 Film Classics
2006 DVD edition
What 80 Million Women Want (1913), black & white, 56 minutes, not rated.
Film Classics, 28554, UPC 0-18619-28554-1.
One single-sided, single-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), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 12 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 25 April 2006.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print with a wandering frameline. The whole print beyond the first three minutes of the film is way too light, and no adjustment to the full-frame video transfer has been made. This is typical of the carelessness of Film Classics (JEF Films) and their subsequent company, TeleVista. Remember, these people don’t care about quality, it’s all about getting your $20.00.
Inexplicably, the presentation starts off with a credits title card from an unidentified MGM film of the 1920s, which is totally unrelated to the film at hand.
This disc is not recommended, but if you have to have it . . .
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Canada: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.ca. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Other EARLY FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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