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Suzanna
(1923)
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This feature comedy, produced by Mack Sennett and directed by F. Richard Jones, stars Mabel Normand, with support from George Nichols, Walter McGrail, Leon Barry and Eric Mayne.
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 Unknown Video
2004 DVD edition
The Unseen Silents (1918-1923), black & white, 58 minutes total, not rated, including Suzanna (1923), black & white, 37 minutes, not rated.
Unknown Video, 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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 4 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $18.95.
Release date: 22 November 2004.
Country of origin: USA •
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This DVD-R edition of Suzanna (1923) has been mastered from a good quality but incomplete 16mm reduction print that is flat grey. The video transfer has a big vertical block of black (and some white) to the left of the picture, and we suspect that some of the right-hand part of the picture is masked off. The DVD appears to have been mastered from a copy of Unknown Video’s 1999 VHS videotape release of the collection, The Unseen Silents. The source print may have had foreign language intertitles as all of the intertitles here are reset in English on a crude video-based system.
The presentation features a low-fidelity electric organ musical accompaniment performed by Bob Vaughn.
Also included is a nearly-complete Harold Lloyd comedy, and the surviving footage of a William S. Hart western with Lon Chaney as the villain.
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UNKNOWN VIDEO has discontinued business and this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is . . .
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Other MABEL NORMAND films available on home video.
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