Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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All Aboard!
(1917)
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This Rolin comedy short film, directed by Alfred J. Goulding, stars Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels, with Snub Pollard, Gus Leonard, William Blaisdell, Charles E. Stevenson, Dorothea Wolbert and Sammy Brooks.
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 Passport Video
2007 DVD edition
Smiles and Spectacles: A Harold Lloyd Treasury (1917-1947), black & white, 600 minutes total, not rated, including All Aboard! (1917), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated.
Passport Video, DVD-5160, UPC 0-25493-51609-8.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (five DVDs in the set); 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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; no chapter stops (within the film); double-wide five-disc DVD keepcase; $19.98.
Release date: 13 February 2007.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition has been mastered from 16mm print materials that are soft in image detail and quite greyed out.
For want of a better disc, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Canada: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.ca. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
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 Alpha Video
2013 DVD edition
Lost Comedy Classics, Volume 2 (1917-1919), black & white, 82 minutes total, not rated, including All Aboard! (1917), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7236D, UPC 0-89218-72369-7.
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 5.4 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; no chapter stops (within the film); standard DVD keepcase; $6.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 10 December 2013.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 3 / audio: 3 / additional content: 3 / overall: 3.
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a VHS videotape duplicated from a worn 8mm reduction print. The contrasty and coarse video transfer runs at too fast a rate for natural movement. Some of the gags run by too fast to be comprehended. Even the source print itself is substandard: One intertitle reads, “Forget that piece of camembert! You are going to marry the barren.” Don’t they mean, baron?
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting low-fidelity music recordings.
Hard to believe but this home video edition looks even worse than the Passport Video edition noted above. Garbage, to be sure.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Canada: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.ca. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era HAROLD LLOYD films available on home video.
Other silent era BEBE DANIELS films on home video.
Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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