 Silent Gems Collection
2017 DVD edition
Florence Lawrence Rare Shorts (1908-1912), black & white, 124 minutes total, not rated, including The Zulu’s Heart (1908), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, The Call of the Wild (1908), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, An Awful Moment (1908), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, Mr. Jones at the Ball (1908), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, The Taming of the Shrew (1908), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, The Girls and Daddy (1909), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, The Salvation Army Lass (1909), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, The Mended Lute (1909), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, Her First Biscuits (1909), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, Jones’ Burglar (1909), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, and Flo’s Discipline (1912), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated.
Silent Hall of Fame Enterprises, 156, 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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; slimline CD jewelcase; $34.99 (raised again to $44.99).
Release date: 2017.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print (as might be surmised from the publisher-provided still frame above). It is likely that throughout the presentation a faint “SHF-E” watermark appears in the lower right-hand corner of the picture to discourage pirating; as this edition was likely pirated from some other home video edition or from some Internet streaming source, we find this to be ludicrous.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films in this collection, see our Flo’s Discipline on home video page.
Reluctantly, this is our recommended home video edition of some of these films. We still vehemently criticize this publisher for their overpriced offerings that give the consumer as little value as possible.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available through . . .
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