 Pathé
2011 DVD edition
Coffret Albert Capellani (1906-1921), color-tinted black & white, and black & white, 488 minutes total, not rated, including L’âge du coeur (1906), color-tinted black & white, 4 minutes, not rated, Aladin ou la lampe merveilleuse [Aladdin and the Marvelous Lamp] (1906), color-tinted black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Drame passionnel (1906), color-tinted black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, La femme du lutteur [The Wrestler’s Wife] (1906), black & white, 5 minutes, not rated, La fille du sonneur [The Bell Ringer’s Daughter] (1906), black & white, 5 minutes, not rated, Mortelle idylle (1906), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Pauvre mère [Poor Mother] (1906), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, L’assommoir (1908), black & white, 36 minutes, not rated, Germinal (1913), color-tinted black & white, 148 minutes, not rated, Le chevalier de la Maison Rouge (1914), color-tinted black & white, 108 minutes, not rated, Quatre-vingt-treize (1921), color-tinted black & white, 165 minutes, not rated.
Pathé, 5223846, UPC 3-388330-040024.
Four single-sided, dual-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD discs; 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 ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; French language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; 40-page insert booklet; four standard DVD keepcases in a cardboard slipcase?; €14,90.
Release date: 11 May 2011.
Country of origin: France
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This PAL DVD collection has been mastered from archival film elements.
The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed by Maxence Cyrin and others.
Supplemental material includes a 40-page illustrated insert booklet (possibly French language text only) with the texts “Albert Capellani: La saga Capellani” by Bernard Basset-Capellani; “Albert Capellani, cinéaste Pathé frères, 1906” by Richard Abel; “De Fort Lee 1905 à aujourd’hui” by Pierre Rissient; “Les films Capellani de la collection Morieux” by Stéphanie Salmon; with restoration notes by Camille Blot-Wellens; and “Une enfance au cinéma” by Stéphanie Salmon.
For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films in this boxset, see our Aladdin and the Marvelous Lamp on home video page.
This is our recommended home video edition of these films. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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