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Alfred Lind
(1912-1923)

Contents: Den flyvende cirkus [The Flying Circus] (1912), Bjørnetæmmeren [The Bear Tamer] (1912) and Filmens vovehals [Daredevil of the Movies] (1923).

Danish Film Institute
2003 DVD edition

Alfred Lind (1912-1923), black & white and color-toned black & white, 104 minutes total. not rated, including Den flyvende cirkus (1912), black & white, 46 minutes, not rated, Bjørnetæmmeren (1912), black & white, 50 minutes, not rated, and Filmens vovehals [Daredevil of the Movies] (1923), color-toned black & white, 8 minutes, not rated.

Danish Film Institute, distributed by Edition Filmmuseum,
no catalog number, no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 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; Danish language intertitles, optional English and Dutch language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; DKK 159,00 (€19,95).
Release date: 16 September 2003
Country of origin: Denmark

This PAL DVD collection of films by Danish director Alfred Lind has been released by the Danish Film Institute. The films have been transferred from very-good to excellent 35mm archival prints.

The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed on piano by Neil Brand.

Recommended. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.

This Region 0 PAL DVD edition is available directly from . . .