Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett
and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved. |
|
The Blue Eagle
(1926)
|
This comedy-drama, directed by John Ford, stars George O’Brien, William Russell and Janet Gaynor, with support from Margaret Livingston, Robert Edeson and David Butler.
|
 Loving the Classics
2004 DVD edition
The Blue Eagle (1926), black & white, 51 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics, no catalog number, no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 2004.
Country of origin: USA
|
This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a VHS videotape dupe recorded from an American Movie Classics television broadcast. As is common to most VHS tapes, the bottom portion of the picture is often full of mistracking artifacts. The original source material appears to be a 35mm preservation print from the Library of Congress. Some footage is heavily marred by advanced nitrate decomposition. The running time is only 51 minutes instead of the advertised 58 minutes.
The film is accompanied by a solo piano score, which is from the AMC television broadcast that this edition has been pirated from.
Be advised, it can take a very looooong time for your order to be fulfilled by Loving the Classics.
|
|
This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
|
|
|
|
Other silent era JOHN FORD films available on home video.
|
