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Griffith
Masterworks
(1908-1921)

Contents: The Adventures of Dollie (1908), Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908), Corner in Wheat (1909), The Sealed Room (1909), Those Awful Hats (1909), The Fugitive (1910), The House with Closed Shutters (1910), In the Border States (1910), The Unchanging Sea (1910), The Usurer (1910), The Battle (1911), Enoch Arden (1911), His Trust (1911), His Trust Fulfilled (1911), The Last Drop of Water (1911), The Miser’s Heart (1911), Swords and Hearts (1911), The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912), Friends (1912), The Lesser Evil (1912), The Massacre (1912), The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), The New York Hat (1912), One is Business, The Other Crime (1912), The Painted Lady (1912), The Sunbeam (1912), An Unseen Enemy (1912), Death’s Marathon (1913), The Mothering Heart (1913), The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1914), The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Broken Blossoms (1919) and Orphans of the Storm (1921).

Kino on Video
2002 DVD edition

Griffith Masterworks (1908-1921), color-toned black & white and black & white, 986 minutes total, not rated, including Grffith Masterworks: Biograph Shorts (1908-1914), black & white, 362 minutes, not rated, The Birth of a Nation (1915), color-toned black & white, 187 minutes, not rated, Intolerance (1916), color-toned black & white, 197 minutes, not rated, Broken Blossoms (1919), color-toned black & white, 90 minutes, not rated, and Orphans of the Storm (1921), color-toned black & white, 150 minutes, not rated.

Kino International,
no catalog number, UPC 7-38329-02702-5.
Seven single-sided, single-layered and dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs; 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 4.5 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; chapter stops; four standard DVD keepcases and one double-wide two-disc DVD keepcase in cardboard slipcase; $99.95.
Release date: 10 December 2002.
Country of origin: USA

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

We have viewed many of the films from this 2002 Kino DVD boxset. We have confirmed that this edition of Broken Blossoms is virtually identical to the 2001 edition reviewed here.

An obvious attraction of this boxset is the additional content in the form of supplemental materials, and the compilation of early Griffith Biograph short films.

For our comparative reviews of the individual films in this boxset, see our Biograph Shorts on home video, The Birth of a Nation on home video, Intolerance on home video, Broken Blossoms on home video and Orphans of the Stormon home video pages.

If you prefer DVD to Blu-ray Disc, this boxset is still recommended by us.

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