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Florence Lawrence
Rare Shorts
(1908-1911)

Content: The Zulu’s Heart (1908), The Call of the Wild (1908), An Awful Moment (1908), Mr. Jones at the Ball (1908), The Taming of the Shrew (1908), Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909), The Girls and Daddy (1909), The Salvation Army Lass (1909), The Mended Lute (1909), Her First Biscuits (1909), Jones’ Burglar (1909) and Flo’s Discipline (1911).

Silent Hall of Fame Enterprises
2017 DVD edition

Florence Lawrence Rare Shorts (1908-1911), black & white, 124 minutes total, not rated, including The Zulu’s Heart (1908), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, The Call of the Wild (1908), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, An Awful Moment (1908), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, Mr. Jones at the Ball (1908), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, The Taming of the Shrew (1908), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, The Girls and Daddy (1909), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, The Salvation Army Lass (1909), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, The Mended Lute (1909), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, Her First Biscuits (1909), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, Jones’ Burglar (1909), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, and Flo’s Discipline (1911), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated.

Silent Hall of Fame Enterprises, 156, 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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; slimline CD jewelcase; $34.99 (raised again to $44.99).
Release date: 2017.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print (as might be surmised from the publisher-provided still frame above).

The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.

Reluctantly, this is our recommended home video edition of the film and we still criticize this publisher for their overpriced offerings that give the consumer as little value as possible.

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