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The Brideâs Play
(1922)
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This drama of Ireland, directed by George W. Terwilliger, features Marion Davies and Jack OâBrien, with Frank Shannon, Wyndham Standing, Carlton Miller and Richard Cummings.
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 Undercrank Productions
2017 DVD edition
The Brideâs Play (1922), color-tinted black & white, 75 minutes, not rated.
Undercrank Productions,
no catalog number, unknown 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 7.7 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 25 July 2017.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 8 / additional content: 0 / overall: 8.
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This DVD-R edition, produced for home video by Edward Lorusso, has been mastered in high-definition at a slightly faster-than-natural speed from an excellent 35mm print held by the Library of Congress. The print is marked with speckling, dust, a small amount of emulsion chipping, processing flaws, some image instability, and the occasional light emulsion scratches. The slightly windowboxed transfer will appear as full-frame on most television monitors. Of note: there are a few examples where reel marker cards have been allowed to remain in the presentation and flash by in a second â this is not a big issue, but the markers could have been edited out of the transfer to keep them from pulling the viewer out of the filmâs narrative. Overall, the visual results are excellent.
The film is presented with a fine stereo music score composed and performed on digital piano by Ben Model.
As this disc appears to be the sole available DVD of the film, this will remain our recommended home video edition for a long time. Enthusiastically recommended!
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
UNDERCRANK PRODUCTIONS through . . .
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Other silent era MARION DAVIES films available on home video.
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