Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Yankee Doodle
in Berlin
(1919)
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This Mack Sennett feature comedy stars Bothwell Browne, Ford Sterling, Malcolm St. Clair, Bert Roach, Ben Turpin, Charles Murray, Marie Prevost and Chester Conklin.
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 Alpha Video
2012 DVD edition
Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919), color-toned black & white, 68 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 6816D, UPC 0-89218-68169-0.
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 stereo sound encoded at ? 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: 31 July 2012.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 5 / additional content: 0 / overall: 4.
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This budget DVD edition has been mastered from a good to very-good 16mm reduction print that is a little dark in its shadow details.
The film has been transfered at faster than natural speed to produce fast movement.
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 Grapevine Video
2011 DVD edition
Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919), black & white, 54 minutes, not rated, with The Floorwalker (1916), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10235-6.
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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 25 October 2011.
Country of origin: USA
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| This budget DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack of preexisting recordings.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is also available directly from . . .
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 Harpodeon
2009 DVD edition
Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919),
black & white, 52 minutes, not rated.
Harpodeon, unknown catalog number, no UPC number.
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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $6.99.
Release date: 31 December 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a good 8mm reduction print. The natural-speed windowboxed video transfer appears to allow the maximum image area present in the source print to be seen on most televisions.
The film is accompanied by a music score by W. Dustin Allgood.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from HARPODEON.
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Other silent era BEN TURPIN films available on home video. |
