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Love
Never Dies
(1921)
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This King Vidor drama stars Madge Bellamy, Lloyd Hughes and Claire McDowell.
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 Alpha Video
2010 DVD edition
Love Never Dies (1921), color-toned black & white and black & white, 63 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6476D, UPC 0-89218-64769-6.
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), 6.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 384 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 28 December 2010.
Country of origin: USA
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This budget DVD edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print in the film holdings of the National Film Museum, Incorporated (whomever that is). Apparently, the video transfer was digitally restored by Hypercube LLC in New York, New York, and, apparently, it doesn’t make much difference. The transfer can’t hide its analog videotape origin, with occasional smears that run to right of picture highlights. The image is at times quite dark in its shadow details, but is for the most part watchable as is. The latter fourth of the film is compromised by missing footage that interrupts the flow of the story.
The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed on piano by Douglas M. Protsik.
Not a horrible edition, but we look forward to the release of a better home video edition than this one.
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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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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era KING VIDOR films available on home video.
Other silent era LLOYD HUGHES films available on home video.
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