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The Unknown
Soldier
(1926)
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This drama directed by Renaud Hoffman features Charles Emmett Mack, Marguerite De La Motte and Henry B. Walthall.
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 Grapevine Video
2012 DVD edition
The Unknown Soldier (1926), black & white, 71 minutes, not rated, with How They Signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10503-6.
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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: June 2012.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is accompanied by a new music score by David Knudtson, likely performed on the Miditzer virtual theater organ (computer-based) system.
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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