Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Paging Love
(1923)
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This comedy short, directed by Herman C. Raymaker, stars Monty Banks and Lois Boyd, with William Blaisdell, Jack Dawn, Catherine Bennett, Ena Gregory and Eva McKenzie.
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 Alpha Video
2017 DVD edition
Monty Banks: Hollywood’s Forgotten Comic Genius (1923-1927), black & white, 103 minutes total, not rated, including Paging Love (1923), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7957D, UPC 0-89218-79579-3.
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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 16 May 2017.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
Please note that we purchsed a copy of this edition but found that it would not play in any of our players and arrangements would not be made to replace the defective disc.
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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