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Slow as
Lightning
(1923)

This action comedy-drama, directed by Grover Jones, stars Kenneth MacDonald and Edna Pennington, with Gordon Sackville, William Berke, William Malan, Joe Bonner and Max Asher.

Alpha Video
2010 DVD edition

Slow as Lightning (1923), black & white, 57 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 5992D, UPC 0-89218-59929-2.
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 6.2 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; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $6.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 23 February 2010.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 3 / additional content: 0 / overall: 3.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a fair 16mm reduction print that has the normal amount of dust, speckling, emulsion scuffing, long vertical scratches, and other print flaws.

The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from low-fidelity preexisting music recordings.

Watchable. For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.

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