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Venus of the
South Seas
(1924) |
This surviving film of Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman’s is a romance of a pearl diver who falls in love with a wealthy playboy. |
 Grapevine Video
2004 DVD edition
Venus of the South Seas (1924), black & white, 55 minutes, not rated,
with Neptune’s Daughter (1914) [excerpts], black & white, 19 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-00061-4.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: 2004.
Country of origin: USA
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| This DVD-R edition has been mastered from the only known surviving print, a 35mm print.
The film is accompanied by a compilation soundtrack of vintage recordings.
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