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The
Golden Chance
(1916)

This drama, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, stars Cleo Ridgely and Wallace Reid, with Horace B. Carpenter, Edythe Chapman, Ernest Joy and Raymond Hatton.

Film Preservation Associates
2005 DVD edition

Don’t Change Your Husband (1919), color-tinted black & white and black & white, 80 minutes, not rated, with The Golden Chance (1916), color-tinted black & white and black & white, 73 minutes, not rated.

Film Preservation Associates, distributed by Image Entertainment, ID1991DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-19912-3.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 6.5 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 7 chapter stops; 4-page insert booklet; standard DVD keepcase; $24.99.
Release date: 25 October 2005.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 6 / audio: 8 / additional content: 6 / overall: 6.

This DVD edition has been mastered from a 35mm preservation negative, however, whether intentional or not, old technology edge sharpening shows up in thin highlights and as shadow edges, all of which compromises viewing pleasure in this edition. The effect can be seen in any intertitle. The black & white footage is a bit flat and the color-tinted footage is also flat but in a way that emphasized the edge sharpening.

The film is accompanied by a music score compiled and arranged by Rodney Sauer and performed by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.

Oh! How this film desperately needs a remastered, better-looking home video edition than this frustrating disc. For now, it is our reluctantly recommended edition.

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