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One Exciting Night
(1922)
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This society drama, directed by D.W. Griffith, features Carol Dempster, Henry Hull, Porter Strong, Morgan Wallace, and somewhere mixed in is Lloyd Hamilton.
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 Alpha Video
2014 DVD edition
One Exciting Night (1922), black & white, 76 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7351D, UPC 0-89218-73519-5.
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 5.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono 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: 21 March 2014.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a VHS videotape copy of a full-frame video transfer of a good 16mm reduction print. As a result, picture details are smeary and the coarse resolution lines are visible on high-definition systems.
The film is accompanied by a compilation of orchestral music from preexisting sources.
While the visual quality is less than ideal, this is the only known DVD home video edition of this rare Griffith feature film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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Other silent era D.W. GRIFFITH films available on home video.
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