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The Cruise of the
Jasper B
(1926)
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This DeMille Pictures production from director James W. Horne stars Rod La Rocque and Mildred Harris, with support from Jack Ackroyd and Snitz Edwards.
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 Alpha Video
2012 DVD edition
The Cruise of the Jasper B (1926), black & white, 62 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6780D, UPC 0-89218-67809-6.
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 6.4 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 15 May 2012.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a very-good 16mm reduction print that is reasonably well-balanced but still dark in its shadow details.
The film is presented with a music score compiled from preexisting recorded sources.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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