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The Belle of
Broadway
(1926)
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This romantic drama, starring Betty Compson and Edith Yorke, is a story of Madame Adele who was once the toast of Paris theatre, now an older woman and unable to get work.
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 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
2013 DVD edition
The Belle of Broadway (1926), color-tinted black & white, color-toned black & white, black & white, 61 minutes, not rated.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
43408, UPC 0-43396-43408-0.
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 5.0 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 foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $26.99.
Release date: 3 December 2013.
Country of origin: USA •
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a very-good 16mm reduction print. The video transfer is quite dark in its shadow details.
The film is accompanied by a music score composed by Christopher Caliendo.
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