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The Salvation
Hunters
(1925)
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This independent production, directed by Josef von Sternberg, features George K. Arthur, Georgia Hale, Bruce Guerin, Otto Matiesen, Nellie Bly Baker, Olaf Hytten and Stuart Holmes.
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 Edition Filmmuseum
2016 DVD edition
The Salvation Hunters (1925), black & white, 70 minutes, not rated, with The Case of Lena Smith (1929) [fragments], black & white, 4 minutes, not rated.
Edition Filmmuseum, 105,
UPC/EAN 9-783958-601055, ISBN 978-3-95860-105.5.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (720 x 480 pixels) anamorphic interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 50 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, optional German and French language subtitles; chapter stops; 20-page insert booklet; standard DVD keepcase; €19,95.
Release date: October 2016.
Country of origin: Germany
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This DVD edition has been mastered from an archival 35mm print.
The film is accompanied by a music score composed by Siegfried Friedrich.
Supplemental material includes “Josef von Sternberg, Salvation Hunter” (2016), a video essay by film historian Janet Bergstrom; and an insert booklet with an preface by Alexander Horwath, an essay “‘Photographing a Thought,’ Josef von Sternberg’s The Salvation Hunter” by Janet Bergstram, and notes on the music score “Photographing Time: On the new score for The Salvation Hunters by Siegfried Friedrich.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film. 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 is available directly from . . .
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 Loving the Classics
202? DVD edition
The Salvation Hunters (1925), black & white, 65 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, no 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; $11.99.
Release date: 202?
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 silent era JOSEF VON STERNBERG films available on home video.
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