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The Sultan’s Wife
(1917)

 

This two-reel comedy, directed by Clarence Badger, stars Gloria Swanson and Bobby Vernon, with Joseph Callahan, Frank Bond, Blanche Payson, Gonda Durand and Phyllis Haver.

coverPassport Video
2007 DVD edition

The Gloria Swanson Collection: 10 Fabulous Films (1915-1931) black & white, 675 minutes total, not rated, including The Sultan’s Wife (1917), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated.

Passport Video, DVD-5151, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (five DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame and windowboxed 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; no chapter stops; double-wide five-disc DVD keepcase; $19.98.
Release date: 13 February 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This budget DVD edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print. Identifying logomarks are superimposed over the lower right corner of the picture to discourage video transfer piracy but, who would bother?

The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from dopey preexisting recordings. Annoying, at best.

The sparce supplementary material includes the short documentary “Hollywood Biography: Gloria Swanson” (25 minutes).

For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film. This edition is now out-of-print. Well, it's not much of a loss.

 
This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
coverLoving the Classics
202? DVD edition

The Sultan’s Wife (1917), black & white, 18 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
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.

The publisher is going to have to explain why they charge $20.00 for less than twenty minutes of disc content.

 
This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
Other silent era GLORIA SWANSON films available on home video.

Other KEYSTONE comedy films available on home video.

Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
 
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