Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Up the Ladder
(1925)
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This romantic drama, directed by Edward Sloman, stars Virginia Valli and Forrest Stanley, with Margaret Livingston, Holmes Herbert, George Fawcett, Priscilla Moran, William V. Mong and Lydia Yeamans Titus.
Forrest Stanley invents television and Virginia Valli loves him all the more for it.
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 Grapevine Video
2006 DVD edition
Up the Ladder (1925), color-toned black & white, 70 minutes, not rated, with Wild and Wooly (1924), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10188-5.
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 5.8 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 256 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 2006.
Country of origin: USA •
Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 4 / additional content: 3 / overall: 4.
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This DVD-R edition was originally mastered for release on VHS videotape in 2002 from a fair to good 16mm reduction print. The source material shows persistent dust, speckling, emulsion scuffing and chipping, vertical scratches, visible splices, and other print flaws.
The film is accompanied by a music score compiled from abruptly edited preexisting low-fidelity recordings (LP pops and crackles included gratis).
Supplemental material includes a Ribticklers short comedy from an 8mm print accompanied by preexisting low-fidelity recordings annoyingly reprocessed for pseudo stereo. This is a comedy?
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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 Loving the Classics
2025 DVD edition
Up the Ladder (1925), black & white, 61 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: 20 February 2025
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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