Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Blue Blood
[Sangue blu]
(1914)
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This feature drama, directed by Nino Oxilia, stars Francesca Bertini and Fulvia Perini, with Anna Cipriani, Amedeo Ciaffi, Angelo Gallina, Andrea Habay and Elvira Radaelli.
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 Cineteca di Bologna
2014 DVD edition
Sangue bleu (1914), black & white, 70 minutes, not rated.
Cineteca di Bologna,
no catalog number, UPC 9-788895-862842.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc; 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; Italian language intertitles, optional English and Dutch subtitles; chapter stops; DVD in paperback book; €9.90.
Release date: 3 September 2014.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition has been mastered from a 35mm print held by Eye Film Instituut Nederland in the Jean Desmet collection.
The film is accompanied by a music score.
Supplemental material includes a paperback book with information on the film and on the tango dance phenomenon, with text (presumably, given there are DVD subtitles in English and Dutch) in Italian, English and Dutch.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film. 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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This Region 0 PAL DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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 Loving the Classics
2025 DVD edition
Blue Blood (1914), black & white, 55 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics, no 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; Italian language intertitles, permanent? English language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99 (raised to $15.49).
Release date: 23 May 2025.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
Note that this company apparently has a history of pirating other home video editions or pirating television network recordings to produce their products. Be aware that purchasing pirated home video editions does not benefit the original edition producers nor the composers whose music is often pirated as well.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other ITALIAN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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