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One Exciting Night
(1922)

This society drama, directed by D.W. Griffith, features Carol Dempster, Henry Hull, Porter Strong, Morgan Wallace, and somewhere mixed in is Lloyd Hamilton.

Alpha Video
2014 DVD edition

One Exciting Night (1922), black & white, 76 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7351D, UPC 0-89218-73519-5.
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 5.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 21 March 2014.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a VHS videotape copy of a full-frame video transfer of a good 16mm reduction print. As a result, picture details are smeary and the coarse resolution lines are visible on high-definition systems.

The film is accompanied by a compilation of orchestral music from preexisting sources.

While the visual quality is less than ideal, this is the only known DVD home video edition of this rare Griffith feature film.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .