Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Silent Trailer
(1926)
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This two-reel action drama, directed by Francis Ford, stars Fearless the dog detective, with Vincent Brownell, Billie Barnes, Jack Richardson, Jane Starr, George B. French, Stella Adams, Warren Heath and Francis Ford.
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 Kino Classics
2025 Blu-ray Disc edition
Wonder Dogs!: Canine Stars of the Silent Era (1897-1928), black & white, color-tinted black & white, color-toned black & white, and color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 477 minutes total, not rated, including The Silent Trailer (1926), black & white, color-tinted black & white, and color-toned black & white, 23 minutes, not rated.
Kino Lorber, K27007, UPC 7-38329-27007-0.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Regions ABC Blu-ray Disc (two BDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at 22.6 Mbps average video bit rate; DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 1.6 Mbps audio bit rate (music), and Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate (commentary); English language intertitles, no subtitles (within the film); chapter stops; standard two-disc BD keepcase; $39.95.
Release date: 20 May 2025.
Country of origin: USA
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This Blu-ray Disc collection has been mastered from a very-good to excellent archival 35mm film print held by the Library of Congress. As with other films in the collection, no digital clean-up has been performed on the dust, speckling, schmutz, emulsion scuffing, or other print flaws in the scans, leaving the film to appear in its honest survival state.
The film is accompanied bya music scores composed and performed on piano by Mathilde Koechlin.
Supplemental material includes audio commentaries by the prolific Anthony Slide (including one for The Silent Trailer); interviews with archivists and curators of this collection Lynanne Schweighofer and George Willeman (21 minutes); and an interview with composer Andrew Earle Simpson (12 minutes).
This is our recommended home video edition of this film.
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Regions ABC Blu-ray Disc edition is available directly from . . .
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 Grapevine Video
2015 DVD edition
Fearless: The Famous Police Dog (1926-1927), black & white, 265 minutes total, not rated, including The Silent Trailer (1926), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc (two DVDs in the set); 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 two-disc DVD keepcase; $22.95.
Release date: May 2015.
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.
This is our recommended DVD home video edition of this film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era ANIMAL STARS films available on home video.
Other EARLY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
Other KEYSTONE comedy films available on home video.
Other silent era D.W. GRIFFITH films available on home video.
Other FRENCH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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