This Wharton serial, directed by Leopold Wharton, stars Jean Sothern, Howard Estabrook and Michael Rale.
The Serial Squadron
2015 DVD edition
The Mysteries of Myra (1916), black & white and color-tinted black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
The Serial Squadron, no catalog number, no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0NTSC 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), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital? 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: October 2015.
Country of origin: USA
This DVD-R edition has been produced from the surviving 35mm prints of chapters five, 12 and 15, with a reconstruction of the first chapter compiled from the original novelization of the serial and production stills. The Serial Squadrom notes that this edition was upgraded in December 2018.
The presentation features a new musical accompaniment performed on digital keyboards by Kevin McLeod.
As a companion piece, the Serial Squadron has also produced a book of the original novelization illustrated with more than 200 stills held in private collections, the Library of Congress, the British Library, the Princeton University Firestone Library, and Ithaca-Made Movies of Ithaca, New York.
While this DVD has not been reviewed at this time, we encourage the support of the Serial Squadron who is responsible for many fine home video editions of silent and sound serial films.
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