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Behind the Scenes
of the Silent Screen
(1908-1925)

Alpha Video
2012 DVD edition

Behind the Scenes of the Silent Screen (1908-1925), black & white, 54 minutes total, not rated, including A Tour of the Thomas H. Ince Studio (1920-1922), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, MGM Studio Tour (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Incendiary Foreman (1908), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6792D, UPC 0-89218-67929-1.
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; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 26 June 2012.
Country of origin: USA

This budget DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm reduction prints.

The films are likely accompanied by a compilation of early film music from a variety of preexisting sources.

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