Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The
Lookout Girl
(1928)
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This B-studio production from Quality Pictures stars Jacqueline Logan, Ian Keith and Lee Moran.
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 Alpha Video
2013 DVD edition
The Lookout Girl (1928), black & white, 55 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7177D, UPC 0-89218-71779-5.
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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 24 September 2013.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has very likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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 Sunrise Silents
2007 DVD edition
The Lookout Girl (1928), color-tinted black & white, 55 minutes, not rated, with Settled at the Seaside (1915), color-tinted black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, Mystery of the Double Cross [chapter 13: “The Face of the Stranger”] (1917), color-tinted black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, and Adam Raises Cain (1922), color-tinted black & white, 9 minutes, not rated.
Sunrise Silents,
LGJL-N (NTSC) and LGJL-P (PAL), no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC or PAL 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 5.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $21.95.
Release date: 1 October 2007.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition was transferred from a 16mm reduction print shows transfer of soft image detail, apparently partly the method and partly the print.
The film is accompanied by a music score performed on MIDI synthesizer.
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SUNRISE SILENTS has discontinued business and this edition is . . .
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