Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Charleston
Parade
(1926)
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Reputedly shot on filmstock left over from the production of Nana (1926), this baffling avant-garde short features Catherine Hessling and Johnny Huggins. The film is now considered a mainstay of French cinematic surrealism.
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  Lions Gate Entertainment
2007 DVD edition
Jean Renoir: 3-Disc Collector’s Edition (1925-1962), black & white and color, 580 minutes total, not rated, including Charleston Parade (1926), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated.
Lions Gate Entertainment, 21100, UPC 0-12236-21100-6.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc (three 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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; French language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; three-disc DVD keepcase in cardboard box; $24.98.
Release date: 24 April 2007.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition of Charleston Parade (1926) has been mastered from an excellent 35mm source print.
We recommend this inexpensive three-disc Jean Renoir set for its very-good to excellent prints that are all of better quality than previous editions on budget VHS videotape.
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This Region 1 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
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 Nostalgia Family Video
2010 DVD edition
Avant Garde Short Subjects from France (1915-1928), black & white, 70 minutes total, not rated, including Charleston Parade (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Nostalgia Family Video, 5253D, 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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; clamshell CD case, $14.99.
Release date: 2010.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition was likely mastered from 16mm reduction prints.
To order a DVD edition, you must enter “Replace My VHS Title with Standard ‘No Frillz’ DVD” in the comments section at order checkout.
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NOSTALGIA FAMILY VIDEO has discontinued business
and this DVD-R edition is . . .
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Other FRENCH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
Other AVANT-GARDE FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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