Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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El Dorado
(1921)
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Marcel l’Herbier directs Ève Francis, Jaque Catelain, Marcelle Pradot and Philippe Hériat in this tale of Spain.
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 Gaumont
2009 DVD edition
L’Homme du large (1920), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with El Dorado (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Gaumont, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD discs (two DVDs in the set); 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; French language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; €29.99.
Release date: 7 October 2009.
Country of origin: France
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This PAL DVD edition presents the restored version of El Dorado (1921).
North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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This Region 2 PAL DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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 Loving the Classics
2025 DVD edition
El Dorado (1921), black & white, 100 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.
Release date: 29 May 2025
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.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other FRENCH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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