 BFI Video Publishing
2006 DVD edition
Dickens Before Sound (1901-1924), black & white and color-toned black & white, 171 minutes total, BBFC Classification E, including Scrooge; or, Marley’s Ghost (1901), black & white, 4 minutes, BBFC Classification E, Gabriel Grub (19??), black & white, 8 minutes, BBFC Classification E, The Cricket on the Hearth (1909), black & white, 14 minutes, BBFC Classification E, Oliver Twist (1909), black & white, 9 minutes, BBFC Classification E, The Boy and the Convict (1909), black & white, 12 minutes, BBFC Classification E, Grandfather Smallweed [extract] (1926-1929), black & white, 4 minutes, BBFC Classification E, Nicholas Nickleby (1912), black & white, 20 minutes, BBFC Classification E, The Pickwick Papers: The Honourable Event (1913), black & white, 15 minutes, BBFC Classification E, David Copperfield (1913) [extract], black & white, 8 minutes, BBFC Classification E, Oliver Twist (1922), color-toned black & white, 74 minutes, BBFC Classification E, and Dickens’ London (1924), black & white, 12 minutes, BBFC Classification E.
BFI Video Publishing, BFIVD526, UPC 5-035673-00526-2,
ISBN 5-03567-300526-2, EAN 5.03567E+12.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed and 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; English language intertitles, no subtitles; closed captions; chapter stops; 40-page insert booklet; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; £24.99 (reduced to £19.99).
Release date: 28 August 2006.
Country of origin: England
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The collected films are presented for the first time with new scores by the composer and pianist Neil Brand.
Supplemental material includes audio commentary by screenwriter Michael Eaton on The Cricket on the Hearth; spoken word performance by Ken Campbell of Dickens' original text over Gabriel Grub and The Pickwick Papers; and a fully illustrated 40-page insert booklet with an introduction, notes on each film and original production stills, plus a downloadable essay by Dickens scholar Graham Petrie.
For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films in this collection, see our David Copperfield on home video and Oliver Twist on home video page.
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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