Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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A Blonde
for a Night
(1928)
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This romantic comedy, directed by E. Mason Hopper, stars Marie Prevost and Harrison Ford, with Franklin Pangborn, T. Roy Barnes and Lucien Littlefield.
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 Grapevine Video
2010 DVD edition
A Blonde for a Night (1928), black & white, 55 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10388-9.
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 6.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); LPCM 1.0 mono sound encoded at 1.5 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 10 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95 (raised to $16.95).
Release date: 2 April 2010.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 3 / audio: 3 / additional content: 0 / overall: 3.
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This DVD+R edition has been mastered from a fair to good 16mm reduction print that is blurry in its picture details, with dust, speckling, schmutz, scuffing, scratches, print tears, frame jitters, and other print flaws present.
The film is accompanied by a cobbled-together score of preexisting film music, some of it quite annoying.
Not great but this appears to be the only home video edition of the film available.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD+R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
A Blonde for a Night (1928), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
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 ? 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; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 201?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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