Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Big News
(1929)
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This early sound feature, directed by Gregory La Cava, stars Robert Armstrong and Carole Lombard, with Louis Payne, Wade Boteler, Charles Sellon, Sam Hardy, Tom Kennedy, Warner P. Richmond, Helen Ainsworth, Gertrude Sutton, James Donlan and George Hayes.
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 Alpha Video
2009 DVD edition
Big News (1929), black & white, 66 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 5796D, UPC 0-89218-57969-0.
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 ? 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; $6.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 28 April 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm 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 from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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