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Lon Chaney:
Before the
Thousand Faces
(1915-1916)

Contents: A Mother’s Atonement (1915), If My Country Should Call (1916), and The Place Beyond the Winds (1916).

This collection presents three early Lon Chaney films, one short and two feature films, that have only survived in incomplete and fragmented form.

Undercrank Productions
2022 Blu-ray Disc edition

Lon Chaney: Before the Thousand Faces (1915-1916), black & white, 82 minutes total, not rated, including A Mother’s Atonement (1915), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, If My Country Should Call (1916), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, and The Place Beyond the Winds (1916), black & white, 39 minutes, not rated.

Undercrank Productions,
no catalog number, UPC 7-45808-09976-3.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R BDMV); 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 ? Mbps average video bit rate; LPCM 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard BD keepcase; $21.98.
Release date: 2 August 2022.
Country of origin: USA

This BD-R collection of three early Lon Chaney films has been mastered from the surviving 35mm print materials: two of the films were part of the famous Dawson City film recovery.

The films are presented with music scores performed by edition producer Jon C. Mirsalis.

We recommend this disc as the best available home video edition of these films.

This Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R) edition is available from
UNDERCRANK PRODUCTIONS through . . .

Undercrank Productions
2017 DVD edition

Undercrank Productions,
no catalog number, UPC 0-86547-02315-3.
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 7.6 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 256 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 17 October 2017.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 7 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.

This DVD-R collection of three early Lon Chaney films has been mastered from the surviving 35mm print materials: two of the films were part of the famous Dawson City film recovery.

The films are presented with music scores performed by edition producer Jon C. Mirsalis.

We recommend this disc as the best available DVD home video edition of these films.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
UNDERCRANK PRODUCTIONS through . . .

Other silent era LON CHANEY films available on home video.

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