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Six and One-Half Times Eleven
(Six et demi, onze)
(1927)

Potemkine Films / Agnès B. DVD
2014 DVD edition

Jean Epstein (1924-1948), black & white, color-tinted black & white, and color-toned black & white, 945 minutes total, not rated, including Six et demi, onze [Six-and-a-Half Times Eleven] (1927), black & white, 83 minutes, not rated.

Potemkine Films / Agnès B. DVD,
EDV2390, UPC 3-545020-028278.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc (eight 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 6.4 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 50 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate, and Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; French language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; 158-page insert book; three multidisc DVD trays in cardboard wraps in cardboard slipcase; €99,90.
Release date: 3 June 2014.
Country of origin: France

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 9 / additional content: 8 / overall: 8.

This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from high-quality 35mm source materials, most of them held by La Cinémathèque française film archive.

The film is presented with a music score composed and performed by Stephen Horne.

Supplemental material includes a 158-page booklet; interviews with Bruno Dumont, Viva Paci, Cristophe Wall-Romana, Éric Thouvenel, Léon Rousseau, James June Schneider and Jacques Ayroles; an alternative ending for Six et demi, onze (1927); and the documentary, Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema (2011) by James June Schneider (68 minutes).

This Region 0 PAL DVD is our recommended home video edition of the film. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.

This Region 0 PAL DVD boxset is available directly from . . .

Loving the Classics
2025 DVD edition

Six-and-a-Half Times Eleven [Six et demi, onze] (1927), black & white, 84 minutes, not rated.

Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown 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; $14.99.
Release date: 5 April 2025
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .