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Lazybones
(1925)
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This rural drama, directed by Frank Borzage, stars Buck Jones and Madge Bellamy, with ZaSu Pitts and Edythe Chapman.
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 20th Century Fox
Home Entertainment
2015 DVD edition
Lazybones (1925), black & white, 85 minutes, not rated.
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
unknown catalog number, UPC 0-24543-97003-3.
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; $19.98.
Release date: 1 October 2015.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from from a very-good to excellent 35mm print. The visual quality should be identical to the earlier Fox edition reviewed below.
The film is likely accompanied by a music score performed on piano and flute.
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
20TH CENTURY FOX through . . .
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 20th Century Fox
Home Entertainment
2008 DVD edition
Murnau, Borzage and Fox (1925-1932), black & white and color, 1080 minutes total, not rated, including Lazybones (1925), black & white, 86 minutes, not rated.
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
35622, UPC 0-24543-56220-7.
Eight single-sided, single-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs; 1.33:1 and 1.20:1 aspect ratios 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) 5.1 surround sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate, and Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, optional French, Spanish and English (sound films only) language subtitles; chapter stops; one single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc; 1.20:1 aspect ratio image 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, and Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, optional French, Spanish and English (sound films only) language subtitles; chapter stops; and three dual-sided, single-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs; 1.20:1 aspect ratio image 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, and Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, optional French, Spanish and English (sound films only) language subtitles; chapter stops; clothbound binder with disc pockets in clothbound box; $239.98.
Release date: 9 December 2008.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition of Frank Borzage’s Lazybones (1925) has been mastered from a very-good to excellent 35mm print that appears to be an early Movietone rerelease print (the picture being cropped to an approximate 1.20:1 ratio). If this is the case, the film is not presented here with a Movietone soundtrack.
The film is presented with a music score performed on piano and flute.
Some collectors have reported scuffed discs that are packaged in die-cut pockets within the binder, and problems playing the double-sided 7th Heaven/The River disc. This disc packaging choice has been a disturbing trend in larger boxsets like this one and the plastic-slipcased Hitchcock collection with their die-cut disc pockets within stiff cardboard pages. Our own copy of this set has presented no playback problems with the discs on a Panasonic BD player. Others have complained that the set is bulky at seven pounds and hard to handle, with its large binder and two full-size books.
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This Region 1 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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Other silent era FRANK BORZAGE films available on home video.
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