Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Arizona
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(1924)
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This Fox railroad melodrama directed by Thomas Buckingham stars David Butler, Pauline Starke and Evelyn Brent, with Anne Cornwall, Harold Goodwin and Francis MacDonald.
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 Grapevine Video
2005 DVD edition
The Arizona Express (1924), color-tinted black & white and color-toned black & white, 82 minutes, not rated, with Her Torpedoed Love (1917) [1924 rerelease version], black & white, 24 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10017-8.
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 4.6 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95 (reduced to $14.95).
Release date: 2005.
Country of origin: USA •
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print of the British or Canadian release version. The older analog video transfer is not very detailed but is only moerately contrasty with dense shadows and some featureless highlights that the color-tinting helps to disguise.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting low-fidelity recordings crudely edited together.
To our knowledge, this is the only available home video edition of the film.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is also available directly from . . .
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 Alpha Video
2020 DVD edition
The Arizona Express (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with Blood and Steel (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8313D, UPC 0-89218-83139-2.
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; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 11 February 2020.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Canada: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.ca. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is also available directly from . . .
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
The Arizona Express (1924), black & white, 70 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.99.
Release date: 201?
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 recordings.
For now, this is our recommended 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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Other RAILROAD FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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