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The Woman in
White
(1917)

This feature drama, based on the Wilkie Collins novel and directed by Ernest C. Warde, stars Florence LaBadie and Richard R. Neill, with Wayne Arey, Arthur Bauer, Margaret Dallas, J.H. Gilmour and Claude Cooper.

Thanhouser Company
Film Preservation
2007 DVD edition

The Thanhouser Collection, DVD Volumes 7, 8 & 9 (1910-1917), black & white, 302 minutes total, not rated, including The Woman in White (1917) [1921 rerelease version], black & white, 68 minutes, not rated.

Thanhouser Company Film Preservation,
no catalog number, no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc (three 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 4.4 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; no chapter stops (within the film); double-wide three-disc DVD keepcase; $24.95.
Release date: September 2007
Country of origin: USA •

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 8 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.

This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 35mm safety film duplicate negative of the 1921 rerelease version, entitled The Unfortunate Marriage, held by the Library of Congress. The film material exhibits a normal amount of dust, speckling, emulsion scuffing, chipping and scrapes, beginning nitrate decomposition, and other flaws (including handwriting on the print). The source material, the standard definition video transfer and the image limitations of DVD combine to render a good but not great picture that looks similar in quality to a good to very-good 16mm reduction print. Some image details get lost in the picture highlights but the shadows are open, and a few shots render image details in flat greys.

The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed on theatre pipe organ by Raymond A. Brubacher.

For information about other films in this collection, see our The Thanhouser Collection, DVD Volumes 7, 8 & 9 page.

This is our recommended home video edition of the film.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .

Loving the Classics
2025 DVD edition

The Woman in White (1917), black & white, 68 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: 16 March 2025
Country of origin: USA

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.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .