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Brown of
Harvard
(1926)

Directed by Jack Conway, this comedy-drama adapted from a popular stage play stars William Haines, Jack Pickford, Francis X. Bushman Jr. and Mary Brian.

Alpha Video
2022 DVD edition

Brown of Harvard (1926), black & white, 85 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8471D, UPC 0-89218-84719-5.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 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 30 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 10 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $8.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 20 October 2022
Country of origin: USA

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

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from an older 16mm reduction print that is a little flat in its greyscale range. The slightly windowboxed presentation may originate from the 1990s VHS videotape edition from Critics’ Choice Video.

The presentation is accompanied by a cobbled-together music score of preexisting musical recordings of varying audio quality.

Not recommended as such but it is the only known commercially available DVD home video edition.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .