Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Atlantis
(1913)
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This feature drama, directed by August Blom, stars Olaf Fønss and Ida Orloff, with Ebba Thomsen, Carl Lauritzen, Alma Hinding, Marie Dinesen, Fredrik Jacobsen, Charles Unthan and Torben Meyer.
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 Danish Film Institute
2006 DVD edition
Atlantis (1913), color-tinted black & white, 116 minutes, not rated, with Liebelei (1914) [fragment], black & white, 15 minutes, not rated.
Danish Film Institute,
unknown catalog number, no UPC number.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 6.0 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; Danish and English language intertitles, no subtitles; 12 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; DKK 159,00 / €20,95.
Release date: August 2006
Country of origin: Denmark •
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This DVD edition has been produced from a new high-definition video transfer utilizing the 1990s fine-grain restoration negative prepared predominantly from the original camera negative. The color tones have been emulated digitally using a Japanese release print as a reference.
The film was previously available in the USA on a black & white 1998 laserdisc produced by David Shepard. This PAL DVD edition includes an alternate ending shot exclusively for the Russian market (2 minutes).
The film is accompanied by a music score arranged and performed on piano by Robert Israel.
Also among the disc’s supplementary material is an excerpt from an abbreviated color-tinted Japanese version of the film (35 minutes), and an excerpt from Liebelei (1914), director August Blom’s follow-up film (15 minutes).
A pretty darn good-looking edition, which looks even better on an HD system capable of upscaling the image. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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This Region 0 PAL DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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 Loving the Classics
2025 DVD edition
Atlantis (1913), black & white, 121 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: 20 February 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.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other DANISH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
Other EARLY FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS of the silent era available on DVD home video.
Other silent film music scores by ROBERT ISRAEL available on home video.
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