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The Devil’s Needle
and Other Tales of
Vice and Redemption
(1913-1916)

Contents: The Inside of the White Slave Traffic (1913), Children of Eve (1915) and The Devil’s Needle (1916).

This collection of social dramas focuses primarily on drug use and of human explotation in America.

Kino Classics
2012 Blu-ray Disc edition

The Devil’s Needle and Other Tales of Vice and Redemption (1913-1916), black & white, 194 minutes total, not rated, including The Inside of the White Slave Traffic (1913), black & white, 28 minutes, not rated, Children of Eve (1915), black & white, 73 minutes, not rated, and The Devil’s Needle (1916), black & white, 66 minutes, not rated.

Kino Lorber, K994, UPC 7-38329-09942-8.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 Blu-ray Disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) progressive scan AVC (MPEG-4) format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard BD keepcase in cardboard slipcase; $39.95.
Release date: 3 July 2012.
Country of origin: USA

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

This Blu-ray Disc collection has been mastered in high-definition from 35mm print materials held by the Library of Congress. The prints range in quality from good to very-good.

Musical accompaniment is provided by Rodney Sauer with The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, and Ben Model.

For our comparative reviews of the individual films in this collection, see our The Devil’s Needle on home video, Children of Eve on home video and The Inside of the White Slave Traffic on home video pages.

The disc’s supplemental material includes outtakes from the fire sequences of Children of Eve (8 minutes) and raw surviving footage of The Inside of the White Slave Traffic at 24 frames-per-second (19 minutes).

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Kino Classics
2012 DVD edition

Kino Lorber, K994, UPC 7-38329-09942-8.
Two single-sided, 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 ? 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 two-disc DVD keepcase, $39.95.
Release date: 3 July 2012.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD collection has been mastered in high-definition from 35mm print materials held by the Library of Congress. The prints range in quality from good to very-good.

Musical accompaniment is provided by Rodney Sauer and The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, and Ben Model.