Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Das Eskimobaby
(1918)
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This short feature comedy, directed by Walter Schmidthässler, stars Asta Nielsen and Freddy Wingardh.
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 Edition Filmmuseum
2012 DVD edition
Vier Filme mit Asta Nielsen [Four Films with Asta Nielsen] (1913-1918), black & white, 234 minutes total, not rated, including Das Eskimobaby (1916), black & white, 70 minutes, not rated.
Edition Filmmuseum, 67, unknown UPC/EAN number.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 50 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German language intertitles, optional English, French and Spanish language subtitles; chapter stops; 12-page insert booklet; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; €29,95.
Release date: June 2012
Country of origin: Germany
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This DVD edition starring the famous Asta Nielsen has been restored or reconstructed from 35mm print elements by the Deutsche Kinemathek.
The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by Maud Nelissen.
Supplementary material includes a 12-page trilingual (German, English and French) insert booklet.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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This Region 0 PAL DVD edition is available directly from . . .
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 Loving the Classics
2025 DVD edition
Eskimo Baby (1918), black & white, 65 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 ? 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; $14.99.
Release date: 3 June 2025
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.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other GERMAN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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