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The
Notorious Lady
(1927)
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This B-studio drama, directed by King Baggot, stars Lewis Stone, Barbara Bedford, Ann Rork, Earl Metcalfe and Francis McDonald.
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 Grapevine Video
2007 DVD edition
The Notorious Lady (1927), black & white, 74 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10289-9.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 7.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 256 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 18 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 2007
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 35mm nitrate print, which is closed-up in its shadow details, with some speckling and emulsion scratches.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting monaural recordings.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Alpha Video
2023 DVD edition
The Notorious Lady (1927), black & white, 75 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8510D, UPC 0-89218-85109-3.
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; $8.98.
Release date: 31 January 2023.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition is likely to have been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.
The presentation is likely to be accompanied by a cobbled-together music score of preexisting musical recordings.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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