Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Mr. Wu
(1927)
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 Warner Archive Collection
2010 DVD edition
Mr. Wu (1927), black & white, 82 minutes, not rated.
Warner Home Video,
no catalog number, UPC 8-83316-28954-9.
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 ? 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; $19.95 (reduced to $17.95, and again to $12.99).
Release date: 20 October 2010.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from excellent 35mm print materials, as originally prepared for broadcast on Turner Classic Movies.
The film is accompanied by a stereo orchestral music score composed by Maria Newman and performed by the Viklarbo Chamber Symphony that has been characterized by some collectors as “horrible.” Some musical passages certainly are horrible.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION through . . .
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 eMoviez
2006 DVD edition
Mr. Wu (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
eMoviez, SIL1, no 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; $19.99.
Release date: 2006.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition may have been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The packaging touts color-tints and restored intertitles.
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EMOVIEZ no longer sells home video products and this item is . . .
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Other silent era LON CHANEY films available on home video.
Other silent era ANNA MAY WONG films available on home video.
Other ASIAN-THEMED FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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