Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett
and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved. |
|
New Women
(1935)
|
This drama, directed by Chusheng Cai, stars Ling-yu Ruan in her penultimate film appearance.
Ruan was a revered actress of the late Chinese silent era who won popular acclaim for her work in a series of social dramas. Unable to cope with life, Ling-yu committed suicide in 1935 at the age of 24.
|
 Guangzhou
2006 DVD edition
New Women (1935), black & white, 106 minutes, not rated.
Guangzhou Beauty Culture Communication Company,
unknown catalog number, UPC 8-83629-12450-6.
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; Chinese language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; unknown suggested retail price.
Release date: 1 December 2006.
Country of origin: China
|
|
This Chinese DVD edition has been mastered from what may be a conflation of 16mm reduction prints.
The film may be presented with a soundtrack of post-synchronized dialogue, music and sound effects. Word is that the spoken dialogue and sound effects may not be from the original release and what sound is original is quite poor. We cannot confirm yet whether the disc includes English subtitles.
If you need a copy of this film right away then you could pick-up this edition, but we suspect that it might be worthwhile waiting for a higher-quality edition to be released. Whenever that might be.
|
|
USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
|
|
|
|
Other CHINESE FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
|
