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Soldier Man
(1926)
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This comedy short, directed by Harry Edwards (with uncredited direction by Frank Capra), stars Harry Langdon, Natalie Kingston, Frank Whitson and Vernon Dent.
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 All Day Entertainment
2007 DVD edition
The Harry Langdon Collection: Lost and Found (1924-1942), black & white, 624 minutes total, not rated, including Soldier Man (1926), black & white, 31 minutes, not rated.
All Day Entertainment, distributed by Facets Multimedia,
DV95365, UPC 7-36899-11362-9.
Four single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in windowboxed 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 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; two plastic DVD trays with hinged disc holders in casebook; $39.95.
Release date: 26 December 2007.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD collection of Harry Langdon short films (and a feature) has been mastered from generally very-good 35mm prints from a variety of archival and private collection sources.
The films are accompanied by music scores performed by the Snark Ensemble, the Redwine Jazz Band, and Franklin Stover.
Among the supplemental material is the documentary Lost and Found (2007) on Harry Langdon (75 minutes); a 20-page booklet featuring writings by Rob Farr, Bruce Lawton, Steve Massa, Ben Model, Wayne Powers, Richard M. Roberts, Andrew Earle Simpson, Dave Stevenson, Brent Walker and Ed Watz; television abridgements of Langdon films; early sound films; Langdon home movies, and more.
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ALL DAY ENTERTAINMENT has discontinued disc sales
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 Grapevine Video
200? DVD edition
Saturday Afternoon (1926), black & white, 30 minutes, not rated, with Soldier Man (1926), black & white, 30 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 ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $12.95.
Release date: 200?
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.
Supplemental material includes another 1926 Harry Langdon comedy.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition has been discontinued
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Other silent era HARRY LANGDON films available on home video.
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