Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett
and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved. |
|
Olive Thomas
Everybody’s Sweetheart
(2004)
|
|
 The Milestone Collection
201? DVD edition
The Olive Thomas Collection (1920-2004), color-toned black & white and color and black & white, 145 minutes total, not rated, including The Flapper (1920), color-toned black & white, 87 minutes, not rated, and Olive Thomas: Everybody’s Sweetheart (2004), color and black & white, 57 minutes, not rated.
Milestone Film and Video,
unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 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 two-disc DVD keepcase; $29.99.
Release date: 201?.
Country of origin: USA
|
|
This reissued DVD edition has been mastered from archival 35mm film elements and should be of identical quality to Milestone’s original release noted below.
Supplemental material includes a small section of stills, interviews, and songs written about Olive Thomas.
This edition is now out-of-print.
|
This Region 1 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
|
|
|
 The Milestone Collection
2005 DVD edition
The Olive Thomas Collection (1920-2004), color-toned black & white and color and black & white, 145 minutes total, not rated, including Olive Thomas: Everybody’s Sweetheart (2004), color and black & white, 57 minutes, not rated.
Milestone Film and Video, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID0101MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-01012-1.
Two single-sided, single-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs; 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 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 448 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $29.99.
Release date: 26 April 2005.
Country of origin: USA •
Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 8 / additional content: 7 / overall: 8.
|
This DVD edition of the Timeline Films documentary Olive Thomas: Everybody’s Sweetheart (2004) focuses on the short, wild life of one of the silent era’s most-beautiful actresses.
Supplementary material includes the semiobscure Thomas film The Flapper (1920), which has been mastered from 35mm film elements; and a small section of stills, interviews, and songs written about Olive Thomas.
|
This Region 1 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
|
|
|
|
Other silent era-related DOCUMENTARIES available on home video.
|
