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The Mysterious
Airman
(1928)
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This 10-chapter serial, directed by Henry Revier, stars Walter Miller, Eugenia Gilbert, Eugene Burr and Dorothy Talcott.
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 Sprocket Vault
2017 DVD edition
The Mysterious Airman (1928), black & white and color-toned black & white, 185 minutes, not rated, with Flying Cadets (1928), color-tinted black & white and color-toned black & white, 32 minutes, not rated.
Kit Parker Films, 35059, UPC 6-88474-35059-5.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 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; 10 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.99.
Release date: 25 April 2017.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition has been mastered from nitrate 35mm print materials held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which is missing the first reel of Chapter 9.
The serial is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by Andrew Earle Simpson.
The supplemental material includes audio commentary by historian Richard M. Roberts; Flying Cadets (1928), a U.S. Army Air Corps educational short, from a 16mm Kodascope reduction print; a gallery of promotional materials (3 minutes; 23 images); biographies of Andrew Earle Simpson and Richard M. Roberts; and materials on the film from the New York State Board of Censors (2 minutes).
From what we’ve seen, this is a high-quality edition and is recommended. The disc is currently only available through Amazon.com.
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Other SERIAL FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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