Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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and the Silent Era Company.
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The Stolen
Play
(1917)
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This feature drama, directed by Harry Harvey, stars Ruth Roland and Ed Brady, with William Conklin, Lucy Blake, Harry Southard, Ruth Lackaye and Makoto Inokuchi.
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 Loving the Classics
2025 DVD edition
The Stolen Play (1917), black & white, 59 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 12 March 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.
For now, 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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Rare Films and More
202? DVD edition
The Stolen Play (1917), black & white, 59 minutes, not rated, with Shoes (1916), black & white, 49 minutes, not rated.
Rare Films and More, 4585, 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, permanent French language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $18.99.
Release date: 202?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been lifted from a French home video edition produced from a 35mm print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
Note that this company apparently has a history of pirating other home video editions to produce their products. Be aware that purchasing pirated home video editions does not benefit the original edition producers nor the composers whose music is often pirated as well.
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