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The Gift Supreme
(1920)
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This social drama feature, directed by Ollie L. Sellers, stars Bernard Durning and Seena Owen, with Melbourne MacDowell, Tully Marshall, Eugenie Besserer, Lon Chaney, Jack Curtis, Richard Morris, Anna Dodge and Claire McDowell.
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 Grapevine Video
2014 DVD edition
Lon Chaney: Films & Fragments (1914-1922), black & white, 98 minutes total, not rated, including The Gift Supreme (1920) [fragment], black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10669-9.
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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: July 2014.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by David Knudtson.
Supplemental material includes footage from the set of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923); and trailers for The Shock (1923) and lost film The Big City (1928).
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 directly from . . .
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 Loving the Classics
202? DVD edition
The Gift Supreme (1920) [fragment], black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, no UPC number.
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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.99.
Release date: 202?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print. Given that the publisher provides no information as to the length of this edition, we have to assume that the source material is fragmentary (reel one only) as is for other editions of the film. For that reason, we feel that this edition is overpriced for the length of the film presented here.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era LON CHANEY films available on home video.
Other silent era CLARENCE BROWN films available on home video.
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