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Sunny Side Up
(1926)

This DeMille Pictures Corporation comedy-drama, directed by Donald Crisp, stars Vera Reynolds and Edmund Burns, with George K. Arthur, ZaSu Pitts, Ethel Clayton and Louis Natheaux.

Alpha Video
2015 DVD edition

The Cheerful Fraud (1926), black & white, 59 minutes, not rated, with Sunny Side Up (1926), black & white, 81 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7685D, UPC 0-89218-76859-9.
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 3.0 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; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 4 August 2015.
Country of origin: USA

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

This DVD-R edition has been mastered at standard-resolution from a good 8mm reduction print. As should be expected, there is an above-average amount of dust and speckling, with a number of splices, a sprinkling of print schmutz, some print flaws and mild frame jitters. There’s more than one example of a one-second audio-video drop-out. All in all, we’ve seen worse.

The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music sources. Some of the recording choices are annoying.

Far from a great presentation but this is the only home video edition of the film we know of.

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