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Lon Chaney:
Before the
Thousand Faces
Volume 2
(1914-1917)
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Contents: By the Sun’s Rays (1914), The Oubliette (1914), The Millionaire Paupers (1915) [surviving footage], The Scarlet Car (1917) and Triumph (1917) [incomplete].
This collection presents five early Lon Chaney films, two shorts and three feature films, that have only survived in complete, incomplete and fragmented forms.
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 Undercrank Productions
2022 Blu-ray Disc edition
Lon Chaney: Before the Thousand Faces, Volume 2 (1914-1917), black & white, 160 minutes total, not rated, including By the Sun’s Rays (1914), color-toned black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, The Oubliette (1914), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 46 minutes, not rated, The Millionaire Paupers (1915) [surviving footage], black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, The Scarlet Car (1917), color-toned black & white, 61 minutes, not rated, and Triumph (1917) [incomplete], color-toned black & white, 33 minutes, not rated.
Undercrank Productions, no catalog number, UPC 7-45808-09974-9.
Two single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 Blu-ray Discs (BD-R BDMV); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at 30.0 Mbps average video bit rate; Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc BD keepcase; $29.98.
Release date: 2 August 2022.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 7 / additional content: 8 / overall: 8.
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This BD-R collection of five early Lon Chaney films has been mastered from surviving archival 35mm nitrate and fine-grain 16mm reduction print materials that range from very-good to excellent. This edition presents what may be the best that these prints may offer in image quality terms. The Millionaire Paupers is in very rough condition with the print being in active decomposition when it was recovered in 1992; what image remains is detailed but suffers from frame jitters and several other forms of significant damage.
The films are presented with music scores performed on digital keyboards by edition producer Jon C. Mirsalis.
For our comparative reviews of the films included in this collection, see our By the Sun’s Rays on home video, The Oubliette on home video, The Millionaire Paupers on home video and The Scarlet Car on home video pages.
We recommend this disc as the best available home video edition of these films.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R) edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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 Undercrank Productions
2022 DVD edition
Lon Chaney: Before the Thousand Faces, Volume 2 (1914-1917), black & white, 160 minutes total, not rated, including By the Sun’s Rays (1914), color-toned black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, The Oubliette (1914), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 46 minutes, not rated, The Millionaire Paupers (1915) [surviving footage], black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, The Scarlet Car (1917), color-toned black & white, 62 minutes, not rated, and Triumph (1917) [incomplete], color-toned black & white, 33 minutes, not rated.
Undercrank Productions,
no catalog number, UPC 7-45808-09975-6.
Two single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R discs; 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 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $24.98.
Release date: 2 August 2022.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R collection of five early Lon Chaney films has been mastered from surviving archival 35mm print materials.
The films are presented with music scores performed by edition producer Jon C. Mirsalis.
We recommend this disc as the best available DVD home video edition of these films.
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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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