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Focus on
Louise Brooks
(1925-1927)

Contents: The Street of Forgotten Men (1925), The American Venus (1926) [fragment], Just Another Blonde (1926) [fragment] and Now We’re in the Air (1927) [fragment].

Flicker Fusion
2026 Blu-ray Disc edition

Focus on Louise Brooks (1925-1927), black & white, 137 minutes total, not rated, including The Street of Forgotten Men (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The American Venus (1926) [fragment], black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Just Another Blonde (1926) [fragment], black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Now We’re in the Air (1927) [fragment], black & white, 22 minutes, not rated.

Flicker Alley, FF0008, UPC 6-17311-60089-0.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Regions ABC Blu-ray Disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (3840 x 2160 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at ? Mbps average video bit rate; DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, English, Spanish, French and German language subtitles, English language SDH subtitles; chapter stops; standard BD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 13 January 2026.
Country of origin: USA

This Blu-ray Disc collection, a mutual project of Flicker Alley and San Francisco Film Preserve, has been mastered from archival film materials, including a high-resolution scan of the 35mm nitrate negative of The Street of Forgotten Men preserved at the Library of Congress. The film’s missing second reel has been reconstructed using film stills as well as text and dialogue based on a copy of the original script, preserved by the New York Public Library. All extant material of The American Venus (including trailers, test footage, and a Technicolor fragment) are presented. All of the surviving footage of Just Another Blonde is presented, including segments from five of the original six reels and the original trailer. Now We’re in the Air is presented from all of the 22-minutes of surviving material.

The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed by Stephen Horne.

Supplemental material includes audio commentary on The Street of Forgotten Men by film historian Pamela Hutchinson; audio commentary on Just Another Blonde by historians Thomas Gladysz and Kathy Rose O’Regan; audio commentary on The American Venus and Now We’re in the Air by historians Thomas Gladysz and Robert Byrne; a restoration demonstation; featurette “Looking at Lulu,” with Pamela Hutchinson; image galleries; and an insert booklet with an essay by Thomas Gladysz and restoration notes by Robert Byrne.

This is our recommended home video edition of these films.

This Regions ABC Blu-ray Disc edition is available directly from . . .

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