Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Evangeline
(1929)
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This late silent era drama, adapted from the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and directed by Edwin Carewe, stars Dolores Del Rio and Roland Drew.
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 The Milestone Collection
2001 DVD edition
Evangeline (1929), black & white and color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 90 minutes, not rated.
Milestone Film & Video, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID9527MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-95272-8.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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 5.8 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 1.0 mono sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 10 chapter stops; snapper DVD case; $29.99.
Release date: 24 April 2001.
Country of origin: USA
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This quality DVD edition has been mastered from the 35mm fine-grain restoration print, digitally duplicated from the original 35mm camera negative and a 35mm positive by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Since only some of the original Vitaphone soundtrack discs survive, additional music is performed on piano by Philip Carli.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
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 Alpha Video
2025 DVD edition
Evangeline (1929), black & white, 83 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8678D, UPC 0-89218-86789-6.
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; $9.99.
Release date: 29 July 2025.
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 and/or surviving original Vitaphone soundtrack discs.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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