Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Salute
(1929)
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This military drama, directed by David Butler and John Ford, stars George O’Brien and Helen Chandler, with support from William Janney, Stepin Fetchit, Frank Albertson, Joyce Compton, Cliff Dempsey, Ward Bond, John Wayne, Lumsden Hare and David Butler.
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 Loving the Classics
2004 DVD edition
Salute (1929), black & white, 84 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics, no catalog number, no 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 4.2 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 256 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 8 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 2004.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a VHS videotape recording of an AMC cable television broadcast of a 35mm reduction print held by the George Eastman Museum film archive. The resolution level of VHS makes for a picture with a good grayscale range but blurred image details. Watchable but not good. The initial copy of this DVD-R disc we received contained many playback errors that would freeze frame the picture until the player could recover.
The film is accompanied by its original synchronized soundtrack, which was cleaned up for the AMC master.
Be advised, it can take a very looooong time for your order to be fulfilled by Loving the Classics.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era JOHN FORD films available on home video.
Other silent era JOHN WAYNE films available on home video.
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