Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Campus Knights
(1929)
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This B-studio comedy stars Raymond McKee in a dual role as a meek college professor and his outgoing twin brother. McKee is supported by Shirley Palmer, Marie Quillen, J.C. Fowler and Leo White.
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 Looser Than Loose
2009 DVD edition
Campus Knights (1929), black & white, 56 minutes, not rated.
Looser Than Loose Vintage Entertainment,
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; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.99.
Release date: 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a conflation of a Videobrary VHS videotape edition (reels 1 and 3) and a very-good 16mm reduction print (the other four reels).
The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed on Korg MIDI synthesizer by Jeff Rapsis.
Note that some international customers have experienced long delays in the shipping of their orders and are being charged very high unannounced shipping costs.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
Campus Knights (1929), black & white, 71 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; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99 (raised to $15.49).
Release date: 201?.
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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