Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Open Switch
(1926)
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This B-studio feature, directed by the prolific J.P. McGowan, features Helen Holmes and Jack Perrin.
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 Alpha Video
2017 DVD edition
The Open Switch (1926), black & white, 50 minutes, not rated, with Mistaken Orders (1926), black & white, 54 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7955D, UPC 0-89218-79559-5.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), 3.7 Mbps average video bit rate, 384 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 16 May 2017.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from an 8mm reduction print.
The film is accompanied by a music score performed on MIDI digital piano in an annoyingly repetious loop of about two minutes.
Our copy of this disc will not play cleanly in any of the four Blu-ray Disc, DVD and laptop players we tried; we had trouble with four discs manufactured by Alpha Video in 2016-2017, which may indicate a formatting or duplication incompatibility on Alpha’s part.
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Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is also available directly from . . .
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Other silent era J.P. McGOWAN films available on home video.
Other RAILROAD FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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