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Pearl White
Queen of the Serials
(1914-1924)
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Contents: The Perils of Pauline [preview] (1914), The Exploits of Elaine [chapter 1, “The Clutching Hand”] (1914), Pearl of the Army [chapter 10] (1916), The Fatal Ring [excerpts] (1917), The Lightning Raider [excerpts] (1919), Plunder [excerpts] (1923) and Terreur (Terror) [excerpts] (1924).
This collection of bits and pieces from the filmography of action queen Pearl White offers a good overview of her career.
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 Grapevine Video
2006 DVD edition
Pearl White: Queen of the Serials (1914-1924), color-tinted black & white and black & white, 103 minutes total, not rated, including The Perils of Pauline [preview] (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Exploits of Elaine [chapter 1, “The Clutching Hand”] (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Pearl of the Army [chapter 10] (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Fatal Ring [excerpts] (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Lightning Raider [excerpts] (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Plunder [excerpts] (1923), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Terreur (Terror) [excerpts] (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10048-2.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC 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 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles and French language intertitles (The Exploits of Elaine), no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 2006.
Country of origin: USA
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