Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Never Weaken
(1921)
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This three-reel comedy, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, stars Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis, with Roy Brooks, Mark Jones, Charles E. Stevenson, William Gillespie, Wally Howe, George Rowe, Helen Gilmore and Gaylord Lloyd.
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 New Line Home Entertainment
2005 DVD edition
The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, Volume 3 (1920-1932), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated, including Never Weaken (1921), black & white, 29 minutes, not rated.
New Line Home Entertainment, N8448,
UPC 7-94043-84482-9, ISBN 0-7806-5291-6.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD 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, optional English and Spanish language subtitles; closed captions; 4 chapter stops; and one dual-sided, dual-layered (side A)/single-layered (side B) Region 1 NTSC DVD 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, optional English and Spanish language subtitles; closed captions; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 15 November 2005.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD collection is mastered from 35mm restoration prints overseen by The Harold Lloyd Trust, which should represent the best-surviving prints of these seven Harold Lloyd shorts and feature films. Speedy and Haunted Spooks are presented with audio commentary by Annette D’Agostino Lloyd and Rich Correll.
We fully expect that this collection will be the best-available editions of these wonderful films, and recommend it sight unseen.
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This Region 1 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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 Kino on Video
2005 DVD edition
The Harold Lloyd Collection, Volume 2 (1918-1921), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 198 minutes total, not rated, including Never Weaken (1921), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K431, UPC 7-38329-04312-4.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 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; 4 chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 13 September 2005.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition of Harold Lloyd films was produced for home video by Lobster Films, Paris.
The film is accompanied by music scores performed on piano by Donald Sosin.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition is available directly from . . .
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 Lobster Films
2017 DVD edition
Le meilleur de Retour de Flamme, Volumes 1-8 (1896-1961), black & white, color-tinted black & white, and color, 1088 minutes total, not rated, including Never Weaken (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Lobster Films, EDV 1419, UPC 3-760130-460873.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc (eight 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 mono and stereo sound encoded at 256 Kbps audio bit rate; French, English, German and Russian language intertitles, optional French language subtitles; chapter stops; four two-disc slimline DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; unknown suggested retail price.
Release date: 20 February 2017
Country of origin: France
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This PAL DVD boxset culls nitrate films from the holdings of FPA France (Lobster Films collection). Some films were provided by Film Preservation Associates.
The silent films are accompanied by music scores performed by Neil Brand, Éric Le Guen, Eric Beheim and Gaylord Carter.
Note that there are no English language intertitles except for the American films and that there are no English language subtitles to Bromberg’s verbal introductions or to the foreign language films. North American collectors will need a PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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This Region 0 PAL DVD boxset is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era HAROLD LLOYD films available on home video.
Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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