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Lon Chaney
Films & Fragments
(1914-1922)

Contents: By the Sun’s Rays (1914), The Oubliette (1914), The Millionaire Paupers (1915) [surviving footage], The Miracle Man (1919) [fragment], The Gift Supreme (1920) [fragment] and The Light in the Dark (1922) [abridged The Light of faith version].

Grapevine Video
2014 DVD edition

Lon Chaney: Films & Fragments (1914-1922), black & white, 98 minutes total, not rated, including By the Sun’s Rays (1914), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, The Oubliette (1914), black & white, 35 minutes, not rated, The Millionaire Paupers (1915) [surviving footage], black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Miracle Man (1919) [fragment], black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Gift Supreme (1920) [fragment], black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Light in the Dark (1922) [abridged The Light of faith version], black & white, 38 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10669-9.
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 ? 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; $16.95.
Release date: July 2014.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from a number of 16mm reduction prints.

The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed by David Knudtson.

Supplemental material includes footage from the set of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923); and trailers for The Shock (1923) and lost film The Big City (1928).

For our comparative reviews of the films included in this collection, see our By the Sun’s Rays on home video, The Oubliette on home video, The Millionaire Paupers on home video and The Light of Faith on home video pages.