Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Artheme Swallows
His Clarinet
(1912)
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This comedy short stars Ernest Servaès as the unfortunate Artheme.
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 Flicker Alley
2011 DVD edition
The Alloy Orchestra Plays Wild and Weird: 14 Fascinating and Innovative Films 1902-1965 (1902-1965), black & white, color-tinted black & white and color-toned black & white, 140 minutes total, not rated, including Artheme Swallows His Clarinet (1912), black & white, 4 minutes, not rated.
Flicker Alley, FA0021,
UPC 6-17311-67649-9, ISBN 1-893967-64-6.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 28 June 2011.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition has been transferred full-frame from a 35mm print source.
The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by The Alloy Orchestra.
Supplemental material includes the brief featurette Alloy Orchestra Plays Filmstudie (2011) presented in 16:9 anamorphic video (10 minutes).
Recommended but, unfortunately, the disc is now out-of-print.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
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 Lobster Films
2006 DVD edition
Retour de Flamme, Volume 5 (1900-1950), black & white and color, 150 minutes total, BBFC Classification E (England).
including Arthème avale sa clarinette (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Lobster Films, EDV 1419, UPC 3-760130-460101.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 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; French and English language intertitles, English and French language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; €25,95 / £24.99.
Release date: 4 December 2006
Country of origin: France
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This PAL DVD edition, spanning the silent era and beyond the golden era of cinema, culls nitrate films from the extensive collection of Lobster Films, Paris.
The films are accompanied by music scores performed by Éric Le Guen and others.
North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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This Region 0 PAL DVD edition has been discontinued
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Other FRENCH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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