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Eyes of Youth
(1919)
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This feature drama, directed by Albert Parker, stars Clara Kimball Young and Gareth Hughes, with Pauline Starke, Sam Sothern, Edmund Lowe, Ralph Lewis, Milton Sills, Vincent Serrano, William Courtleigh, Kid McCoy and, in a small part, Rudolph Valentino.
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 Film Preservation Associates
2000 DVD edition
The Married Virgin (1918), black & white, 71 minutes, not rated, with Eyes of Youth (1919) [excerpts], black & white, 10 minutes, not rated.
Film Preservation Associates, distributed by Image Entertainment, ID9704DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-97042-5.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (reissued on 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; 10 chapter stops; snapper DVD case (reissued in standard DVD keepcase); $24.99.
Release date: 19 December 2000.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition includes exerpts from Eyes of Youth (1919), featuring Rudolph Valentino in another early surviving film role (10 minutes).
While this is probably the best-looking edition of the film even though excerpted, the entire film can be viewed in the DVD editions noted below.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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 Grapevine Video
2011 DVD edition
Eyes of Youth (1919), black & white, 72 minutes, not rated, with The Worldly Madonna (1922), black & white, 47 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10213-4.
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; $14.95.
Release date: 2011.
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 recordings.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Alpha Video
2012 DVD edition
Eyes of Youth (1919), black & white, 69 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6765D, UPC 0-89218-67659-7.
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; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 17 April 2012.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition includes a complete presentation of Eyes of Youth (1919), likely mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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Other RUDOLPH VALENTINO films available on home video.
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