Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The
Coast Patrol
(1925)
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This B-studio maritime drama features Kenneth McDonald, Claire de Lorez, Fay Wray, Spottiswoode Aitken and Gino Corrado.
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 Grapevine Video
2014 DVD edition
The Coast Patrol (1925), color-tinted black & white, 60 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, 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; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: 14 February 2014.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a compiled music score of preexisting recordings.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Alpha Video
2012 DVD edition
The Coast Patrol (1925), black & white, 65 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6757D, UPC 0-89218-67579-8.
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 5.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 17 April 2012.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a good 8mm reduction print that is soft in image detail. The old, natural-speed, analog full-frame video transfer loses highlight details in some of the film’s brighter shots.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting (low-fidelity) recordings.
An OK edition, but we still suspect that, even though we haven’t viewed it, the Grapevine Video edition noted above will still be of better quality.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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Other NAUTICAL FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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