Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Lighthouse
by the Sea
(1924)
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This Rin-Tin-Tin feature, directed by Malcolm St. Clair, features William Collier Jr., Louise Fazenda, Charles Hill Mailes, Douglas Gerrard and Mathew Betz.
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 Grapevine Video
2011 DVD edition
The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924), black & white, 61 minutes, not rated, with The Snip (1920), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10295-0.
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: 21 June 2011.
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 soundtrack compiled from preexisting music sources.
This may be the best available home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Alpha Video
2021 DVD edition
The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8464D, UPC 0-89218-84649-5.
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; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 9 November 2021.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music sources.
We have not viewed this home video edition.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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Other silent era RIN-TIN-TIN films available on home video.
Other silent era ANIMAL STARS films available on home video.
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