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The Copper Beeches
(1912)
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This Sherlockian short film, directed by Adrien Caillard, stars Georges Tréville as Holmes. This French-British coproduction The Copper Beeches (1912), featuring the comically-overplayed performance by the actor portraying Rucastle, the vindictive father. Not much of a mystery and not much of a film, with its outright bad direction and overwrought acting. At least Georges Tréville, who appears in latter Holmes films, makes a reasonable Holmes.
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 Grapevine Video
2002 DVD edition
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1912-1921), color-toned black & white and color-tinted black & white, 105 minutes total, not rated, including The Copper Beeches (1912), color-toned black & white and color-tinted black & white, 24 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, 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 4.5 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 4 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: 2002.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 3 / audio: 3 / additional content: 0 / overall: 3.
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from 16mm reduction prints of varying quality. The Cooper Beeches (1912) appears to have been transferred from a very-good fine-grain 16mm print, which holds a reasonable greyscale range and image detail. Some of the intertitles have been windowboxed to ensure readability on all monitors. Easily the best-looking film on the disc, we would rate this film’s visual quality at a 6.
The films are accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting music recordings.
For our comparative reviews of other films in this collection, see our The Dying Detective on home video, The Devil’s Foot on home video and The Man with the Twisted Lip on home video pages.
The print quality of the Stoll films brings down the overall visual quality of this disc, but it is still the recommended home video editions of these films.
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
The Copper Beeches (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, 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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.99.
Release date: 201?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other SHERLOCK HOLMES FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
Other BRITISH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
Other CRIME FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
Other SHORT DRAMA FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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