Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Straight from
Paris
(1921)
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This society drama, directed by Harry Garson, stars Clara Kimball Young with Bertram Grassby, William P. Carleton, Betty Francisco and Thomas Jefferson.
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 Loving the Classics
2025 DVD edition
Straight from Paris (1921), black & white, 86 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; $22.99.
Release date: 8 August 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, and due to its longer running time, 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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 Grapevine Video
2014 DVD edition
Mid-Channel (1920) black & white, 68 minutes, not rated, Straight from Paris (1921), black & white, 37 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10670-5.
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; $14.95.
Release date: July 2014.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from an incomplete 16mm reduction print.
The film is accompanied by a music score performed on virtual pipe organ by David Knudtson.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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