Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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David
Copperfield
(1913)
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This early feature drama, directed by Thomas Bentley, also features Kenneth Ware, Len Bethel, Reginald Sheffield, Alma Taylor, H. Collins, Jack Hulcup, Jamie Darling, Edna May, Amy Verity and Cecil Mannering.
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 Grapevine Video
2010 DVD edition
David Copperfield (1913), color-tinted black & white, and color-toned black & white, 66 minutes, not rated, with Matrimony’s Speed Limit (1913), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10322-3.
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 7.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 12 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 2010.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 3 / audio: 3 / additional content: 4 / overall: 3.
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a good 16mm reduction print with saturated color-tints that has a predictable amount of dust, speckling, frame jitters, sprocket damage in the picture, and other flaws present. Shadow details are quite dark if not totally closed-up to black nothingness. The all-around tightly cropped 16mm print chops off even more on the left-side of the image.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting low-fidelity orchestral music recordings, some of which has been heard many times before if you regularly view Grapevine discs.
Supplementary material includes a Alice Guy-Blaché comedy short accomapnied by a music score performed on electronic piano. This one would be good paired with a showing of Seven Chances (1925).
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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Other BRITISH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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