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The Film Parade
A History of Early Cinema
(1933)
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This short documentary, narrated and directed by J. Stuart Blackton, covers the early history of motion picture. While this edition features the original 1933 film, the film may have been expanded by Blackton in the 1950s to a running time of more than 60 minutes, which was released on VHS videotape in the 1990s.
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 Inkwell Images
200? DVD edition
The Film Parade: A History of Early Cinema (1933), black & white, 37 minutes, not rated, including The Film Parade (1933), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, with The Pictures (1947), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated.
Inkwell Images, 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 ? 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; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: 200?.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is accompanied by the film’s original synchronized soundtrack.
Supplemental material includes a British documentary, directed by Howard Gaye with narration by Kent Stevenson, on early cinema (19 minutes).
Sight unseen, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era-related DOCUMENTARIES available on home video.
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