Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Shot in the
Excitement
(1914)
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This short comedy stars Alice Howell and Al St. John, with Rube Miller and Josef Swickard.
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 Undercrank Productions
2019 DVD edition
The Alice Howell Collection (1914-1925), black & white, 217 minutes total, not rated, including Shot in the Excitement (1914), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated.
Undercrank Productions,
no catalog number, UPC 6-47213-97019-7.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R discs (two 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 ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 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; $24.98.
Release date: 5 March 2019.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 8 / additional content: 7 / overall: 8.
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This DVD-R collection has been mastered from a 35mm preservation print, duplicated from a 35mm paper print, held by the Library of Congress.
The film is accompanied by a music score performed by Ben Model.
Although it is released on DVD, this is the best-looking home video edition of the film we have viewed.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
UNDERCRANK PRODUCTIONS through . . .
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 Flicker Alley
2014 Blu-ray Disc edition
The Mack Sennett Collection, Volume One (1909-1933), black & white, 1005 minutes total, not rated, including Shot in the Excitement (1914), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated.
Flicker Alley, FA0035,
UPC 6-17311-67879-0, ISBN 1-893967-87-5.
One single-sided, single-layered, Regions ABC Blu-ray Disc (three BDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at ? Mbps average video bit rate; Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard three-disc BD keepcase; $59.95.
Release date: 19 August 2014.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 5 / audio: 5 / additional content: 5 / overall: 5.
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This Blu-ray Disc edition has been mastered from a good to very-good 16mm reduction print held by Richard M. Roberts.
The supplemental material includes selected audio commentary, outtakes and rushes, 1920 footage of the Sennett studio, a trailer for The Crossroads of New York (1922), newsreel footage, a complete 1939 radio appearance by Mack Sennett, television appearances including the Mack Sennett episode of This is Your Life, and a 28-page booklet featuring notes on the films.
While this is on a Blu-ray Disc edition, this is not a recommended home video disc for this film.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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Other SHORT COMEDY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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