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The
Soul of Youth
(1920)
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This feature-length drama, directed by William Desmond Taylor, features Lewis Sargent, Ernest Butterworth, Clyde Fillmore, Grace Morse, Lila Lee, Elizabeth Janes and William Collier Jr.
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 National Film Preservation Foundation
2007 DVD edition
Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film (1900-1934), black & white and color, 739 minutes total, not rated, including The Soul of Youth (1920), color-toned black & white and black & white, 80 minutes, not rated.
National Film Preservation Foundation, distributed by Image Entertainment, NATD3827DVD, UPC 0-14381-38272-3.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (four DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 5.5 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; 12 chapter stops; four standard DVD keepcases with book of program notes in cardboard slipcase; $89.99.
Release date: 16 October 2007.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD collection from the National Film Preservation Foundation includes a complete presentation of this feature film directed by William Desmond Taylor, transferred in a slightly windowboxed format.
The film is presented with a modern music score.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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Other WILLIAM DESMOND TAYLOR films available on home video.
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