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A Tale of
Two Worlds
(1921)
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Leatrice Joy stars as an orphaned girl raised in a Chinese household in this story of crime and a clash of cultures in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Wallace Beery, J. Frank Glendon, E.A. Warren and Jack Abbe support.
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 Grapevine Video
2008 DVD edition
A Tale of Two Worlds (1921), black & white, 71 minutes, not rated, with The Fast Mail-Man (1922), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10333-9.
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; 10 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 2008.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a dark 16mm reduction print.
The film is accompanied by a music score performed on piano that was likely taken from the source print’s optical soundtrack.
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
A Tale of Two Worlds (1921), black & white, 70 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: 201?
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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